The - Quotes
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation — every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
It has certainly been true in the past that what we call intelligence and scientific discovery have conveyed a survival advantage. It is not so clear that this is still the case: our scientific discoveries may well destroy us all, and even if they don't, a complete unified theory may not make much difference to our chances of survival.
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
There are only two types of people in this world - the people who do the DOING, and the people who have stuff done to them.