life Quotes

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.