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
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.
You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table. The increase of disorder, or entropy, is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
While there's life, there is hope.
I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.
A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.
People think I'm a Simpsons character.
Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up
I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes that is the most interesting career open to anyone. But he also believes that you have to follow your own path in life and so he certainly wasn't going to push me toward theoretical physics when it didn't look like I was going in that direction naturally.
Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.
I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.