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
There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things
Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.
Why do we remember the past, but not the future?
God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.
In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.
The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.
Disability need not be an obstacle to success.
If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.