Stephen Hawking

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking - Der Spiegel, 1989
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
Stephen Hawking - Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

- Stephen Hawking