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
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.
It matters that you don't just give up,
It matters if you just don't give up.
There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
It matters if you don't just give up.
It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.
Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.
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.
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.
Perhaps one day I will go into space.
It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.