Stephen Hawking Quotes

Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Psychology is simply great because it helps you better understand all kinds of people.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

I think human beings are funny, tricky things.

I used to make my living by understanding people. And the way I learned to understand them was by observing them. I would sit in a train station or a bus station or a restaurant. And I would watch people. I would watch how they related to one another. I would try to get some insight into them and make them as predictable as I could in my mind.

You meet people, and you're like, 'I don't know how I feel about you,' and someone does something surprising that changes your mind. We're interesting creatures; we're nuanced, complicated and layered, and we make all sorts of choices.

I'm someone who likes to explore the complexities in people.

I think the dark psychology of human beings is very interesting as an artist.

I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

I find people confusing.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.