Stephen Hawking Giving Quotations

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table. The increase of disorder, or entropy, is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

It matters if you don't just give up.

The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average

It matters if you just don't give up.

It matters that you don't just give up,

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.