I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter’s school fees.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I retain what’s interesting to me, but I don’t have a lot of strategic depth.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‚Molecular Biology of the Gene.‘

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn’t getting anywhere – like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department – I would draw the other people.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

My dad kind of liked racing and motorsports, but wasn’t a big fan, it wasn’t like he watched every race or whatever.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.