In A Brief History Of Time I

If We Ever Do Find A Complete Theory Of The Universe, It Would Be A Great Triumph Of Human Reason But It Wouldn't Leave Much For Us To Do. We Need An Intellectual Challenge.

When Two's Company, Three's The Result!

I Believe In The Possible. I Believe, Small Though We Are, Insignificant Though We May Be, We Can Reach A Full Understanding Of The Universe. You Were Right When You Said You Felt Small, Looking Up At All That Up There. We Are Very, Very Small, But We Are Profoundly Capable Of Very, Very Big Things.

[on President Bush's Plan To Get To Mars In 10 Years] Stupid. Robots Would Do A Better Job And Be Much Cheaper Because You Don't Have To Bring Them Back.

Maybe I'm Being A Bit Harsh On Philosophers, But They Have Not Been Very Kind To Me... I Have Been Variously Called Nominalist, An Instrumentalist, A Positivist, A Realist, And Several Other Ists. The Technique Seems Refutation By Denigration: If You Can Attach A Label To My Approach, You Don't Have To Say What Is Wrong With It... I Am Sure That Einstein, Heisenberg And Dirac Didn't Worry About Whether They Were Realists Or Instrumentalists.