I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.
Stephen HawkingWhen I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well.
Stephen HawkingMy first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
Stephen HawkingMy goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Stephen HawkingMaybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists.
Stephen Hawking