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
Maybe my viriety is due to bad absorption of vitamins.
There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.
Do you believe in first love - or should I pass by again?
It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict.
Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.
I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.
I'm here to chew gum and kick some ass, and I'm all out of gum.