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
There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.
The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.
If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way.
I'm really easy to get along with once you see it my way.
We see the universe the way it is because we exist.
If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.
The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves
If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.
There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.
The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works
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.
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
Perhaps one day I will go into space.
It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.