Quotes from Stephen Hawking

While there's life, there is hope.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice - if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.

We've created life in our own image.

The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.

Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

My wife and I love each other very much.

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.