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 fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?
We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.
What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.
Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator.
Theology is unnecessary.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.
It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.
Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.