“There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.”

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.

Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?

There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

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

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

I don’t fear God- I fear His believers.

God abhors a naked singularity.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn’t as if he was going to need them.

It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science.

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

I’m touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful – collecting these shards of spirituality – that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil… The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.