Stephen Hawking Quotes

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

Space is something which makes us question our role here on Earth. It brings out the best of our hopes and dreams.

We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

The universe is a great mystery.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.