01c. 1980 ADIt is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
02c. 1980 ADI would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
03c. 1980 ADI think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
04c. 1980 ADScience predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
05c. 1980 ADNot only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
06c. 1980 ADA few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
07c. 1980 ADTime travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
08c. 1980 ADI entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
09c. 1980 ADI believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
10c. 1980 ADI don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
11c. 1980 ADI don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
12c. 1980 ADIt was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
13c. 1980 ADSuccess in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
14c. 1980 ADLook up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
15c. 1980 ADHowever difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
16c. 1980 ADGod is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
17c. 1980 ADI have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
18c. 1980 ADThe radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
19c. 1980 ADThe past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.Stephen Hawking / quote ↗
