Thoughts from Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking, the famed physicist, cosmologist and author passed away on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at the age of 76.

On alien life -

“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 said in 2010.

On being diagnosed with ALS -

“It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven’t done badly. People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” Stephen Hawking 2005

On women -

“They are a complete mystery,” he said in an interview with The New Scientist magazine in 2012, having confessed to having spent most of his 70th birthday thinking not about the wonders of the cosmos, but about women.

On finding alien life -

“Primitive life is relatively common, but that intelligent life is very rare. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.” Stephen Hawking 2008.

On global warming –

“We are close to the tipping point, where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees [Celsius], and raining sulfuric acid.” Stephen Hawking June 2017

On life-

One - “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.” Two - “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.” Hawking gave this advice to his three children Lucy, Robert and Tim and shared it in an interview in 2010.

Four - “However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope,” Stephen Hawking 2006.

And lastly –

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”