The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line. – Stephen Hawking
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. – Stephen Hawking
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. – Stephen Hawking
Only roam on, therefore, all fearless, in the many garden of romantic chivalrous poesy, which drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew. – C.O. Müller (Karl Otfried Müller), Introduction to a Scientific System