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
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.
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
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.
The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.
Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.