Stephen Hawking

I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.

Stephen Hawking

I don’t know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ’s are losers.

Stephen Hawking

I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I’m an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

Stephen Hawking

I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

Stephen Hawking

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter’s school fees.

Stephen Hawking

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

Stephen Hawking

I had not expected ‘A Brief History of Time’ to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.

Stephen Hawking

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

Stephen Hawking

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

Stephen Hawking

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

Stephen Hawking