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The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.

I would rather be right than rigorous.

Mass: The quantity of matter in a body; its inertia, or resistance to acceleration.

In fact, according to quantum physics, each particle has some probability of being found anywhere in the universe.

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.

do we really have reason to believe that an objective reality exists?

Women. They are a complete mystery.

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

I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well ... At times I thought he was me.

Never scrub your arse with a wire brush.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Money is not everything. There's Master card & Visa.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed.

The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions.

Each exists for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!

According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing.

We live in a bewildering world.

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Women. They are a complete mystery.

In 1956 two American physicists, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, suggested that the weak force does not in fact obey the symmetry P.

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up

We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

You can't afford to be disabled in spirit as well as physically. People won't have time for you.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

Can God make a stone so heavy that he can't lift it?

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average

If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don't give up. There is a way out.

Galileo , perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

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.

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

Do you believe in first love - or should I pass by again?

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

Well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I do not believe in a personal God.

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

(The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.) There

General theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. They are the great intellectual achievements of the first half of this century.

If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

In space no one can hear you scream; and in a black hole, no one can see you disappear.

I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.

No boundary condition: The idea that the universe is finite but has no boundary (in imaginary time).

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

Love the neighbor. But don't get caught.

I'd say I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid He might hear me.

What did God do before he created the universe?

I don't fear God- I fear His believers ...

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Half the battle is just showing up.

The fact that light travels at a finite, but very high, speed was first discovered in 1676 by the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer.

A scientific law is not a scientific law if it only holds when some supernatural being decides to let things run and not intervene. In

Thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.

I'm here to chew gum and kick some ass, and I'm all out of gum.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.

The eventual goal of science is to provide a single theory that describes the whole universe.

TEAMWORK ... means never having to take all the blame yourself.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Aristotle thought the earth was stationary and that the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars moved in circular orbits about the earth.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.

Another prediction of general relativity is that time should appear to run slower near a massive body like the earth.