About Stephen Hawking

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

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• Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.Interview 'The Science of Second-Guessing', The New York Times (2004)
• 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)

More quotes on motivation

• A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.Lao Tzu
• Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.Rumi
• If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon, don't smile contemptuously upon its quest. Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?Rumi
• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.Henry David Thoreau
• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.Ralph Waldo Emerson

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