Top 10 Quotes by Stephen Hawking

The Top Ten

1 Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change

2 The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge

I like this one. It makes me think about what I could be doing that is wrong when I think it's right.

3 I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not in a hurry to die.

4 I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers

5 My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why is it as it is and why it exist at all

6 Life would be tragic if it weren't funny

7 I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason

My friends in the maths department at college are rather sensitive to this one.

8 It is not clear that intelligence has any long term survival value

9 It matters if you just don't give up

10 Women. They are a complete mystery

The Contenders

11 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.

And without imperfection, that was perfectly perfected. (as agreed by a perfectly imperfect - or imperfectly perfect woman with (or without) perfect imperfections - or imperfect perfections). Ah, whatever.

Seems logical

12 All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

13 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.

I believe he stole this quote from me whilst eavesdropping in on my conversation in a Burger King queue once.

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