Stephen Hawking Quotes

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

No sense makes sense.

The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.

When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.