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
Stephen Hawking quotes about
The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works
There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.
I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me.
Computer viruses are alive.
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.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries
Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.
If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.
Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
It matters that you don't just give up,
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.
Succeed in spite of management.