"So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist."

~ Stephen Hawking #Botd 1942

"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."
~ Stephen Hawking

"Quiet people have the loudest minds."
~ Stephen Hawking

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
~ Stephen Hawking

"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

"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

"It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why."
~ Stephen Hawking

"What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got."
~ Stephen Hawking

"Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer."
~ Stephen Hawking

"What is important is that we have the ability to create."
~ Stephen Hawking

"So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist."
~ Stephen Hawking

"I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective."
~ Stephen Hawking

"The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. ...

... That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes." ~ Stephen Hawking

"The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities."
~ Stephen Hawking

"The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all."
~ Stephen Hawking