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
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.
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us
I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.