Title of a collection, by Hawking, of the most significant papers in Quantum mechanics: The Dreams That Stuff Is Made of : The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World (2011)
“We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”
Prospero, Act IV, scene i.
Source: The Tempest (1611)
“Different men are made of different stuff.”
La Sorellina di Pilone (1712), Act V., Sc. XVI. — (Burino.)
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 425.
“Myths are not the stuff of which sensible policy is made.”
Letter from Londonistan (2005)
“This is the stuff we're made of, half indifference and half malice.”
Source: Blindness (1995), p. 32
“We used to dream about this stuff. Now we get to build it. It's pretty great.”
Keynote address http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc04/ at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (June 2004)
2000s
“I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part.”
The New York Times (27 July 1986)
1980s
