About Stephen Hawking

Theoretical physicist known for black hole research and A Brief History of Time. (1942-2018)

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• It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.Quoted in 'Return of the time lord', The Guardian (2005)
• My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.Interview 'The Science of Second-Guessing', The New York Times (2004)
• 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.Interview in Der Spiegel (1988)
• So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking, Discovery Channel (2010)
• Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.Widely quoted from his public talks; exact first source not confirmed

More quotes on humor

• The world's most deadly disease is 'hardening of the attitudes.'Zig Ziglar
• Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.Zig Ziglar
• If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.Jim Rohn
• If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.Brian Tracy
• Motivation is garbage.Mel Robbins
• The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.Seth Godin

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