110+ Stephen Hawking Quotes On Ai, Success And Technology

Stephen Hawking was an English scientist and theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on black holes and relativity, and is considered one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century. He wrote several books, including A Brief History of Time, which became an international bestseller. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Stephen Hawking on ai, success, technology.

Top 10 Stephen Hawking Quotes

1. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
2. So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.
3. Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. Laugh at the Absurdity of Life
4. The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
5. 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.
6. It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.
7. Quiet people have the loudest minds.
8. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
9. It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.
10. It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

Stephen Hawking Image Quotes

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. Laugh at the Absurdity of Life — Stephen Hawking

Quiet people have the loudest minds. — Stephen Hawking

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Short Quotes

• I don't fear God- I fear His believers.
• Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.
• It matters if you just don't give up.
• When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.
• I'm really easy to get along with once you see it my way.
• I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
• To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
• The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
• Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.
• It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Stephen Hawking Quotes About Ai

It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded. — Stephen Hawking

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. — Stephen Hawking

If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here - we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not - but this is more or less what is happening with AI. — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Quotes About Success

If at first you don't succeed, try management. — Stephen Hawking

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives. — Stephen Hawking

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

Disability need not be an obstacle to success. — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Quotes About Technology

We've created life in our own image. — Stephen Hawking

One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand. — Stephen Hawking

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so. — Stephen Hawking

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it. — Stephen Hawking

We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery. — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Quotes About Humanity

We don't let animals suffer, so why humans? — Stephen Hawking

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. — Stephen Hawking

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars. — Stephen Hawking

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. — Stephen Hawking

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all. — Stephen Hawking

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. — Stephen Hawking

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. — Stephen Hawking

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

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. — Stephen Hawking

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. — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Quotes About Life

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. — Stephen Hawking

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

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. — Stephen Hawking

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life. — Stephen Hawking

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. — Stephen Hawking

While there's life, there is hope. — Stephen Hawking

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution. — Stephen Hawking

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. — Stephen Hawking

We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life. We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics. — Stephen Hawking

Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Quotes About Knowledge

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge. — Stephen Hawking

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else. — Stephen Hawking

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. — Stephen Hawking

The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else. — Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years. — Stephen Hawking

We won't know for a few years. — Stephen Hawking

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in. — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Quotes About Science

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? — Stephen Hawking

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. — Stephen Hawking

So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen. — Stephen Hawking

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. — Stephen Hawking

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. — Stephen Hawking

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

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest. — Stephen Hawking

What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. — Stephen Hawking

One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator. — Stephen Hawking

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science. — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Quotes About Time

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security. — Stephen Hawking

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist. — Stephen Hawking

You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table. The increase of disorder, or entropy, is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. — Stephen Hawking

There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time. — Stephen Hawking

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

I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion. — Stephen Hawking

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. — Stephen Hawking

Plagiarism saves time. — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Quotes About Love

If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. — Stephen Hawking

One should love animals. They are so tasty. — Stephen Hawking

Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an ass. — Stephen Hawking

TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself. — Stephen Hawking

My wife and I love each other very much. — Stephen Hawking

It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love. — Stephen Hawking

I like physics, but I love cartoons. — Stephen Hawking

Do you believe in first love - or should I pass by again? — Stephen Hawking

Love the neighbor. But don't get caught. — Stephen Hawking

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution. — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Quotes About Universe

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. — Stephen Hawking

We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them — Stephen Hawking

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn — Stephen Hawking

It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious. — Stephen Hawking

Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going. — Stephen Hawking

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist — Stephen Hawking

The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty. — Stephen Hawking

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. — Stephen Hawking

If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation. — Stephen Hawking

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so. — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Quotes About People

Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population. — Stephen Hawking

I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low. — Stephen Hawking

I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street. — Stephen Hawking

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. — Stephen Hawking

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people. — Stephen Hawking

Many people find the universe confusing - it's not. — Stephen Hawking

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. — Stephen Hawking

People think I'm a Simpsons character. — Stephen Hawking

There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people. — Stephen Hawking

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist. — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Quotes About Physics

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. — Stephen Hawking

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. — Stephen Hawking

If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well. — Stephen Hawking

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics. — Stephen Hawking

Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically. — Stephen Hawking

Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets. — Stephen Hawking

I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt. — Stephen Hawking

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics. — Stephen Hawking

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. — Stephen Hawking

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. — Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Famous Quotes And Sayings

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. Laugh at the Absurdity of Life — Stephen Hawking

Quiet people have the loudest minds. — Stephen Hawking

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. — Stephen Hawking

It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful. — Stephen Hawking

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. — Stephen Hawking

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. — Stephen Hawking

In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder. — Stephen Hawking

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. — Stephen Hawking

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality? — Stephen Hawking

The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn. — Stephen Hawking

The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes. — Stephen Hawking

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. — Stephen Hawking

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. — Stephen Hawking

The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological-technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century. — Stephen Hawking

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories. — Stephen Hawking

A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat. — Stephen Hawking

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. — Stephen Hawking

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. — Stephen Hawking

I'd say I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid He might hear me. — Stephen Hawking

To boldly go where no one has gone before — Stephen Hawking

Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges? — Stephen Hawking

A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations. — Stephen Hawking

Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space. — Stephen Hawking

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. — Stephen Hawking

What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. — Stephen Hawking

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four. — Stephen Hawking

God abhors a naked singularity. — Stephen Hawking

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. — Stephen Hawking

The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation. — Stephen Hawking

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldnt want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach. — Stephen Hawking

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope. — Stephen Hawking

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations. — Stephen Hawking

The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise. — Stephen Hawking

Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer. — Stephen Hawking

Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet. — Stephen Hawking

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. — Stephen Hawking

Life Lessons by Stephen Hawking

1. Stephen Hawking taught us to never give up, even in the face of adversity. He overcame a debilitating physical disability to become one of the most renowned scientists of our time.
2. He showed us that with hard work and determination, anything is possible. Hawking was a passionate advocate for science and education, and he inspired millions of people around the world.
3. He also taught us to never stop learning and exploring. Hawking was an avid reader and a curious learner who was always looking for new ways to expand his knowledge.