# Quote — Stephen W. Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

> With current technology interstellar travel is utterly impractical. Alpha Centauri can never become a holiday destination.

- Author: [Stephen W. Hawking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-w-hawking.md)
- Book: [Brief Answers to the Big Questions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-w-hawking/brief-answers-to-the-big-questions.md)
- Page: 174
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-w-hawking/brief-answers-to-the-big-questions/with-current-technology

## More from this book

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

p. 84 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-w-hawking/brief-answers-to-the-big-questions/it-is-not.md)

> If you like, you can call the laws of science 'God', but it wouldn't be a personal God that you would meet and put questions to. Although, if there were such a God, I would like to ask however did he think of anything as complicated as M-theory in eleven dimensions.

p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-w-hawking/brief-answers-to-the-big-questions/if-you-like.md)

> If a superior alien civilisation sent us a text message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here, we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not, but this is more or less what has happened with AI.

p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-w-hawking/brief-answers-to-the-big-questions/if-a-superior.md)