Quotes About Knowledge

Stephen Hawking

Solo somos una raza avanzada de monos....pero podemos comprender el universo

the universe is governed by a set of rational laws that we can discover and understand.

philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

I would see the end of physics as we know it, but now I think the wonder of discovery will continue long after I am gone. We are close to some of these answers, but we are not there yet.

But we are, by nature, explorers. Motivated by curiosity. This is a uniquely human quality. It is this driven curiosity that sent explorers to prove the Earth is not flat and it is the same instinct that sends us to the stars at the speed of thought, urging us to go there in reality.

Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding

las personas siempre se aferrarán a la religión, porque proporciona consuelo, y porque no confían ni entienden la ciencia.

Stephen Hawking

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

Nous menons notre vie sans quotidienne sans presque rien comprendre au monde qui est le nôtre.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity - Albert Einstein

Before we understood science, it was natural to believe that God created the universe, but now science offers a more convincing explanation. What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is we would know everything that God would know if there was a God, but there isn't. I'm an atheist.

I sometimes threw books without indexes to the floor.

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

History is scholarship. It is also art, and it is literature.

Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

People, as curious primates, dote on concrete objects that can be seen and fondled. God dwells among the details, not in the realm of pure generality. We must tackle and grasp the larger, encompassing themes of our universe, but we make our best approach through small curiosities that rivet our attention - all those pretty pebbles on the shoreline of knowledge. For the ocean of truth washes over the pebbles with every wave, and they rattle and clink with the most wondrous din.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all general impediments to scientific literacy.

As Freud observed, our relationship with science must be paradoxical because we are forced to pay an almost intolerable price for each major gain in knowledge and power—the psychological cost of progressive dethronement from the center of things, and increasing marginality in an uncaring universe.

Wonder and knowledge are both to be cherished.

We do not usually surrender the intellectual system of a lifetime for one bit of information that does not fit.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.