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
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.
Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.
The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression,
I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.
I do not believe in a personal God.
One should love animals. They are so tasty.
If it [the universe] was expanding fairly slowly, the force of gravity would cause it eventually to stop expanding and then to start contracting. However, if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate, gravity would never be strong enough to stop it, and the universe would continue to expand forever.
I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.
A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.
If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose.
A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.
Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.