About Stephen Hawking

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

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More from Stephen Hawking

• 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)
• 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 failure and resilience

• God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.Rumi
• What does not kill me, makes me stronger.Friedrich Nietzsche
• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.Viktor Frankl
• When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.Viktor Frankl
• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.Viktor Frankl
• The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.Carl Jung

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