Quotes by Stephen Hawking

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have

#Appreciation, #Expectation

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is...

#Goals

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

#Intelligence, #Survival

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

#Change, #Intelligence

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe...

#Optimism

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen...

#Science

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of...

#Science

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very...

#Mankind, #Understanding, #Universe

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is...

#God, #Universe

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very...

#Universe

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail....

#Death