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
While there's life, there is hope.
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.
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.
science will win because it works.
Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.
What was God doing before the divine creation?
What is important is that we have the ability to create.
One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.
I think computer viruses should count as life,
The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.
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.
Without imperfection, you or I would not exist.
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.