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
We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things
Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.
We see the universe the way it is because we exist.
The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.
I wouldnt be here today if it were not for the NHS, I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.
It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.
A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.
In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.
One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
You can't regulate every lab in the world.
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.