Latest Stephen Hawking Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again.

  Stephen Hawking

  Taken, Fiction, Stories

  "Stephen Hawking Reveals What He REALLY Thought Of Eddie Redmayne In 'The Theory Of Everything'". The Huffington Post UK Interview, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. August 5, 2015.

• Disability can be no handicap.

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  Disability, Handicaps

  "Stephen Hawking Reveals What He REALLY Thought Of Eddie Redmayne In 'The Theory Of Everything". The Huffington Post UK Interview, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. August 5, 2015.

• Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Machines, Leisure

  "Speaking of Science", www.washingtonpost.com. October 8, 2015.

• It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

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  Parent, Apes, Ancestor

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 8, 2015.

• Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Intelligent, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Engineering, Justice

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

• If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night.

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  Dream, Night, Mind

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

• Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

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  Cancer, Goal, Fusion

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

• People think I'm a Simpsons character.

  Stephen Hawking

  Character, Thinking, People

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

• In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics. However, this is not what most people mean by God, so I have decided not to use the term. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a God.

  Stephen Hawking

  Mean, Law, People

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

• There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

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  Thinking, Important, Retrospect

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

• Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator.

  Stephen Hawking

  Needs, Creator, Universe

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

• The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

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  Book, Law, Lessons

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

• Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.

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  Mind, Wonderful, Wheelchairs

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

• I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.

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  Thinking, Race, Space

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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

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  Space, Want, You Only Live Once

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2007.

• As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control. It was a natural next step to want to know how the universe works.

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  Children, Numbers, Next Steps

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

• It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

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  Asking Why, People, Important

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

• I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.

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  Children, Ideas, Black

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

• I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes that is the most interesting career open to anyone. But he also believes that you have to follow your own path in life and so he certainly wasn't going to push me toward theoretical physics when it didn't look like I was going in that direction naturally.

  Stephen Hawking

  Dad, Believe, Thinking

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2007.

• When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time," by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing.

  Stephen Hawking

  Children, Teens, World

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2007.

• One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.

  Stephen Hawking

  Father, Doe, Bars

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2007.

• Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head.

  Stephen Hawking

  Father, Thrill, Information

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2007.

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Fiction, Gripping, Exciting

  Source: www.nbcnews.com