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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”
― Stephen Hawking

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."

[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]”
― Stephen W. Hawking

“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. … So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth. The Earth is a sphere. It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”
― Stephen W. Hawking

“Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
― Stephen Hawking

“So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.”
― Stephen Hawking

“People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”
― Stephen Hawking

“The universe doesn't allow perfection.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.”
― Stephen W. Hawking

“It matters if you just don't give up.”
― Stephen Hawking

“God abhors a naked singularity.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

“I like physics, but I love cartoons.”
― Stephen Hawking

“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”
― Stephen Hawking

“The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Scientists tend to risk theories they admire”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

“Women. They are a complete mystery to me.”
― Stephen Hawking

“A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be *psychologically* disabled as well.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".”
― Stephen Hawkings