Perhaps one day I will go into space.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.
I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson’s and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.
I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.
I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.
I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.
I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.
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.
I had not expected ‘A Brief History of Time’ to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.
I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.
All my adult life people have been helping me.
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.
My work and my family are very important to me.
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.
My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
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