We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.
From Stephen Hawking
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.
The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.
My wife and I love each other very much.
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.
I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.
Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
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