Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSAis an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set forth a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 January 1942
CityOxford, England
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be *psychologically* disabled as well.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.
So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It's like asking for directions to the edge of the earth; the earth is a sphere, it doesn't have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.