Top 60 Motivational Quotes By Stephen Hawking

Who is Stephen Hawking?

Stephen Hawking was the world's most famous scientist. Stephen Hawking was born on 8 February 1942 in Oxford, England.

Stephen William Hawking was struck by illness at the age of 21. After which the doctor told Stephen William Hawking that he would live only 2 years more, but this was proved wrong by Hawking because he died at the age of more than 50 years.

Stephen William Hawking had a disease named Motor Neuron.  Despite his illness, he was one of the world's greatest scientists.

A motor neuron is a disease. In which the thinking power of the mind gradually starts to decrease. And some parts of the body stop working. And the communication power also decreases.

Stephen did a lot of research in his lifetime, the most famous of which was about space-time. And he has explained many theories. Bing Bang Theory and Black Hole. 

There is also a film on the life of Stephen William Hawking called 'The Theory everything'.

Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76 on 14 March 2018.

Today we'll share with you Stephen Hawking's Top 60 Motivational Quotes, which will give you a lot to learn.

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Motivational Quotes Given By Stephen Hawking 

1. Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. 

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2. The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

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3. I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

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4. I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

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5. Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

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6. 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.

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7. I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

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8. Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

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

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10. Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, we must understand why it is impossible.

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

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12. God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

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13. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

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14. Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humour.

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15. There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

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16. To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might be like.

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17. If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

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18. In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

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19. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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

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21. What was God doing before the divine creation?

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22. The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen arbitrarily, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

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23. I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

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24. The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

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25. I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

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

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27. We should seek the greatest value of our action.

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28. Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

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29. I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

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30. The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

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31. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

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32. The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

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33. We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.

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34. I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

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35. Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

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36. The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

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37. To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

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38. I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

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39. Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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40. My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you from doing well and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

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41. We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

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42. 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.

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43. 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.

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44. If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

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45. Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

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46. 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.

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

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48. 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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49. We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

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50. Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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51. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life are empty without it.

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52. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

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53. Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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54. 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.

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55. I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

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56. I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

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57. It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

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58. The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.

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59. If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

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60. Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.

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