Stephen Hawking

“Some scientists think it may be possible to capture a wormhole and enlarge it many trillions of times to make it big enough for a human or even a spaceship to enter.”

“I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.”

“why are we here?where do we come from?traditionally,these are questionsfor philosophy,but philosophy is dead”

“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.”

“Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.”

“If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.”

“It is extremely important to me to write for children.”

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”

“One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.”

“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”

“My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay close attention to the study of theoretical physics. Because one day there may well be proof of multiple universes. It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another different universe. And in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction.”

“I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.”

“Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.”

“If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.”

“The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.”

“God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”

“There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.”

“People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”

“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”

“A 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?”