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
For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.
There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.
The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.
Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.
The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works
When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.
When two's company, three's the result!
When I get to heaven I'm gonna find the guy in charge of the weather and kick his rear.
The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.
Save water. Shower with your girlfriend.
Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?
We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.
One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.
Science makes god unnecessary.