Stephen Hawking Quotes

To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.

You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Man is an imagining being.

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

To solve the Cube, you need special skills and understanding. For example, pattern recognition is very important to solve the Cube.

I've always been interested in visualizing something, whether it's a memory or an idea you want to be true. I am a big believer in that. I'm constantly thinking of that. If I can't picture something, then it doesn't make sense to me.

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.

To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And that's what Marvin does, too. He visualizes. He sees things in his mind so well.