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
But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.
If at first you don't succeed, try management.
Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points.
What was God doing before the divine creation?
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.
[Asked what he thinks about most during the day] Women. They are a complete mystery.
I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.
We've created life in our own image.
We explore because we are human.
Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.
In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.