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
Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.
Do you believe in first love - or should I pass by again?
If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist...
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.
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!