Stephen Hawking Quotes

United Kingdom, Physicist
January 8, 1942 – March, 14, 2018.

Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009.

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

Stephen Hawking
- Space
- Survive
- Spread
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Stephen Hawking
- God
- Seen
- Dice

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Stephen Hawking
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Stephen Hawking
We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Stephen Hawking
- Action
- Value
- Seek
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Stephen Hawking
- Universe
- Goal
- Exists
It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.

Stephen Hawking
- People
- Love
- Universe
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.

Stephen Hawking
- Life
- Difficult
- Succeed

I would never claim this. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Stephen Hawking
- People
- Losers
- Boast
God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Stephen Hawking
- Science
- Universe
- Creator