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“The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

On voluntary euthanasia as quoted in People's Daily Online (14 June 2006) http://english.people.com.cn/200606/14/eng20060614_273839.html

“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

British Telecom advertisement (1993), part of which was used in Pink Floyd's Keep Talking (1994) and Talkin' Hawkin'<nowiki/> (2014)
Context: For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

“We are all different — but we share the same human spirit. Perhaps it's human nature that we adapt — and survive.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

Official Trailer
Hawking (2013)

“There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don’t shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.”

Stephen Hawking book A Brief History of Time

Source: A Brief History of Time

“If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“Simplicity is a matter of taste”

Stephen Hawking book The Grand Design

Source: The Grand Design

“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“It matters if you don't just give up.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

Attributed in Going Within (1990) http://books.google.com/books?id=buVs1VVUZakC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA303#v=onepage&q&f=false by Shirley MacLaine, p. 303 <br class="br">Attributed

“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“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 (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

Der Spiegel (17 October 1988)

“We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”

Stephen Hawking book A Brief History of Time

Source: A Brief History of Time

“What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

“Retaliation gets you nothing. Revenge is worthless.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

“Struck intensely tonight by the thought that we live in a great age. We can make music, food, pictures, art, & love with unbelievable unprecedented freedom. It's all there, there for the taking & the making, all the time.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

“It’s not possible, and nor should it be possible, to control what anyone thinks about you. Especially if it’s not based in any reality.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

“I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer