Credo Stephen Hawking

I think science fiction is useful, both for stimulating the imagination and for defusing fear of the future.

  Everything is predetermined. But we can assume that it is not, because we do not know what exactly is predetermined.  

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

 

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.

 

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

 

Важно не сердиться и не расстраиваться, какой бы трудной ни казалась жизнь.

  While there's life, there is hope.  

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.

 

I think computer viruses should count as life. Maybe it says something about human nature, that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive.

 

I am convinced that science and research activities bring more pleasure than making money.

 

have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

 

t's important not to become angry, no matter how difficult life is, because you can lose all hope if you can't laugh at yourself and at life in general.

 

When I was twelve, one of my friends bet another friend a bag of sweets that I would never come to anything. I don't know if this bet was ever settled, and if so, which way it was decided.

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.