Stephen Hawking Quotes

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

Every science has been an outcast.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

Scientific Progress goes boink?

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Science is not inherently good.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.