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
At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
Plagiarism saves time.
One can't prove that God doesn't exist, but science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.
Money is not everything. There's Master card & Visa.
Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?
To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Succeed in spite of management.
I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him by his former post-doc, Nathan Myhrvold.]
[Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?] More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.
[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.
The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.