Project Luhren

Stephen Hawking said some pretty profound things, and not all of them were about the universe, but most of them will put things in perspective for you.

If you don’t know who Stephen Hawking is then you may have been living under a rock 9 weeks ago when he died. There’s literally a movie about him (The Theory of Everything) so pop that movie on or do a quick Google search to find out why he’s so influential. If you don’t feel like that, these inspiring quotes stand alone as reminders of things we should consider and appreciate in our daily lives. Take a quick read and enjoy!

1. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

2. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

3. In my mind I am free.

4. We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special.

5. I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

6. Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

7. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

8. It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.

9. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.

10. People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

11. For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened with unleashed the power of our imagination.

12. May you keep flying like superman in microgravity.

13. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.

14. We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity.

15. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

16. Our greatest hopes could become our reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

17. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.

18. Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist.

19. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

20. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible.