46 quotes
"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
- Stephen Hawking
Love
"I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road."
- Stephen Hawking
Awareness
"Remember to look 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. And 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
Awareness
"Look 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
Awareness
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
- Stephen Hawking
Awareness
""One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.""
- Stephen Hawking
Balance
"There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope."
- Stephen Hawking
Hope
"There should be no boundaries to human endeavour. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope."
- Stephen Hawking
Hope
"Remember to look 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. And 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
Hope
"If there’s life, there is hope."
- Stephen Hawking
Hope
"I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I’m an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."
- Stephen Hawking
Hope
"However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope."
- Stephen Hawking
Hope
"Quiet people have the loudest minds."
- Stephen Hawking
Self-awareness
"People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."
- Stephen Hawking
Self-awareness
"Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny."
- Stephen Hawking
Happiness
"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."
- Stephen Hawking
Personal Growth
"If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher."
- Stephen Hawking
Inspiration
""My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.""
- Stephen Hawking
Inspiration
"Science is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion."
- Stephen Hawking
Inspiration
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
- Stephen Hawking
Inspiration
"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet."
- Stephen Hawking
Inspiration
"Remember to look 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. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
- Stephen Hawking
Inspiration
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet."
- Stephen Hawking
Inspiration
"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away."
- Stephen Hawking
Motivation
"Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!"
- Stephen Hawking
Motivation
"Work gives you meaning and purpose; life is empty without it."
- Stephen Hawking
Motivation
"My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically."
- Stephen Hawking
Motivation
"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."
- Stephen Hawking
Motivation
"Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself."
- Stephen Hawking
Teamwork
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
- Stephen Hawking
Success
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
- Stephen Hawking
Learning
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
- Stephen Hawking
Change
"I 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
Change
"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
Persistence
"We spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let's face it, is mostly the history of stupidity."
- Stephen Hawking
Learning from Mistakes
"Remember to look 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. And 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
Perseverance
"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
Perseverance
"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."
- Stephen Hawking
Originality
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change"
- Stephen Hawking
Adaptation
"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else"
- Stephen Hawking
Adaptation
"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else."
- Stephen Hawking
Adaptation
"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."
- Stephen Hawking
Philosophy
"The universe doesn’t allow perfection."
- Stephen Hawking
Philosophy
"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"
- Stephen Hawking
Philosophy
"Time is a dimension, like the dimensions of space."
- Stephen Hawking
Philosophy
"One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist"
- Stephen Hawking
Philosophy