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Quotes by Stephen Hawking

"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