"If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered."
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )

Source: Hawking, Stephen. 2005. Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005. Quoted in The Quotations Page. Available from URL http://quotationspage.com/quote/37152.html [Downloaded 2009-09-28]