Quotes About Stephen

have taken the opportunity to update the book and include new theoretical and observational results obtained since the book was first published (on April Fools' Day, 1988). I have

Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.

Some people make a great mystery of this idea, sometimes called the multiverse concept, but these are just different expressions of the Feynman sum over histories.

So some might imagine that I am an expert on time, although of course these days an expert is not necessarily a good thing to be.

As the poet Alexander Pope said: Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

We are not about to build particle accelerators that can probe to distances that small. They would have to be larger than the solar system and they are not likely to be approved in the present financial climate.

This result was very convenient for Marxist–Leninist dialectical materialism

Unless we have a totalitarian world order, someone will design improved humans somewhere.

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply trying to understand the mind of God.

all clues, ideally, should be met with delight and detachment, rather than euphoria or, worse, disdain and despair.

the great British entomologist Sir Vincent Wigglesworth (wonderful name for an insect man, I always thought) . . .

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?

Anger is the most useless emotion, Henchick intoned, destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

people had the mistaken idea that Poe wrote fantastic stories about the supernatural, when in fact he wrote realistic stories about abnormal psychology.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

How cruel would a supreme being have to be to make a world as fucked-up as this one?

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even death may die. — H. P. Lovecraft

Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.