Great Quotes from Great People #88: Stephen Hawking

truth-revelation (73)in #greatestquotes • 7 years ago

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

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truth-revelation (73) 7 years ago

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

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truth-revelation (73) 7 years ago

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

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truth-revelation (73) 7 years ago

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

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truth-revelation (73) 7 years ago

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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truth-revelation (73) 7 years ago

It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. It's a crazy world out there. Be curious.

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truth-revelation (73) 7 years ago

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

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truth-revelation (73) 7 years ago

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

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truth-revelation (73) 7 years ago

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.

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truth-revelation (73) 7 years ago

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.