Movie

The Theory of Everything

by Stephen Hawking, Anthony McCarten, Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox and 93 others

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

(14 total)

Characters

Anthony McCarten (13)Stephen Hawking (12)Eddie Redmayne (9)Jane Hawking (3)Felicity Jones (3)Georg Nikoloff (1)Khalatnikov (1)

“Reading Stephen Hawking's draft of A Brief History of Time: 'Who are we? Why are we here? If we ever learn this, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason, for then we would know the mind of god.'”

— Anthony McCarten, Jane Hawking, Felicity Jones, imdb.com

Tagged: a brief history of time, God, Reason

“Your glasses are always dirty.”

— Anthony McCarten, Jane Hawking, Felicity Jones, imdb.com

Tagged: Insult

“Stephen Hawking: [introducing themselves for the first time] Hello. Jane Hawking: Hello. Stephen Hawking: Science. Jane Hawking: Arts.”

— Anthony McCarten, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

Tagged: introduction, Science, Arts

“Jane Hawking: What do cosmologists worship? Stephen Hawking: A single unifying equation that explains everything in the universe.”

— Anthony McCarten, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

Tagged: cosmologists, Universe

“I have loved you.”

— Anthony McCarten, Jane Hawking, Felicity Jones, imdb.com

Tagged: Love

“Jane Hawking: So, I take it you've never been to church? Stephen Hawking: Once upon a time. Jane Hawking: Tempted to convert? Stephen Hawking: I have a slight problem with the celestial dictatorship premise.”

— Anthony McCarten, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

Tagged: Church, Conversion, celestial dictatorship, atheism

“[to a room full of physicists] As you know, my field is evolution of the hot universe, the properties of the microwave background radiation and the theory of black holes. To be honest, I came here today expecting to hear a lot of nonsense. I go home disappointed. The little one here has done it! He…”

— Anthony McCarten, Khalatnikov, Georg Nikoloff, imdb.com

Tagged: physicists, Black Holes, Nonsense

“I'm sorry. I did my best.”

— Anthony McCarten, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

Tagged: Apology, Effort

“Brian: Stephen, your 'motor-mouth' disease, does it affect, um... Stephen Hawking: What? Brian: [Gesturing towards his crotch] Uh, everything? Stephen Hawking: What? No. Different system. Automatic. Brian: Are you serious? Well that's pretty wonderful isn't it? Well it certainly explains a lot about…”

— Anthony McCarten, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

Tagged: motor-mouth, Crotch

“Jane Hawking: What about you? What are you?... Stephen Hawking: Cosmologist, I'm a Cosmologist. Jane Hawking: What is that? Stephen Hawking: It is a kind of religion for intelligent atheists.”

— Anthony McCarten, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

Tagged: Cosmology, atheists

“There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.”

— Anthony McCarten, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

Tagged: Life, Hope

“To prove with a single equation that time had a beginning. Wouldn't that be nice, professor? The one simple elegant equation, to explain everything.”

— Anthony McCarten, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

Tagged: equation, Theory

“It is clear that we are just an advanced breed of primates on a minor planet orbiting around a very average star, in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. BUT, ever since the dawn of civilization people have craved for an understanding of the underlying order of the world.”

— Anthony McCarten, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

Tagged: galaxies, World, order

“There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.”

— Stephen Hawking, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Hawking, amazon.com

Tagged: Hope, Encouragement, differences, Success, Positivity