If information is lost in macroscopic black holes it should also be lost in processes in which microscopic, virtual black holes appear because of quantum fluctuations of the metric. One could imagine that particles and information could fall into these holes and get lost. Maybe that is where all those odd socks went.

— Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Quotes

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

— Stephen Hawking
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Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

— Stephen Hawking
Funny Short About Life Science Funny Work

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
Deep About Life Growth Mindset Mistake Complaining

While there is life, there is hope.

— Stephen Hawking
Positive Inspirational Empowering Motivational About Life Inspirational Life

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

— Stephen Hawking
Science

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

If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them.

— Stephen Hawking

Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

— Stephen Hawking

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

— Stephen Hawking

We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?

— Stephen Hawking
Science Curiosity

The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

— Stephen Hawking
Past

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

— Stephen Hawking

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.

— Stephen Hawking
Science Universe Genius About Night

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.

— Stephen Hawking
Science Curiosity About Numbers

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking
Science Universe Book Principles And Laws

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.

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

If information is lost in macroscopic black holes it should also be lost in processes in which microscopic, virtual black holes appear because of quantum fluctuations of the metric. One could imagine that particles and information could fall into these holes and get lost. Maybe that is where all those odd socks went.

— Stephen Hawking

I lost my voice, but I can still speak thanks to my voice synthesizer.

— Stephen Hawking
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