Stephen Hawking Quotes

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist

There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

You've got to understand and accept that nothing in the world is perfect. The sooner you understand that, the better it will be.

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

There is no perfection only life

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

There is nothing perfect...only life.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

Life is not free from its forms.

The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it.

Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.