Stephen William Hawking( born 8 January 1942) is 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 out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Hawking is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the US. In 2002, Hawking was ranked number 25 in the BBC’s poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009 and has achieved commercial success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; his book A Brief History of Time appeared on the British Sunday Times best-seller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. ( From Wikipidea)
QUOTES OF STEPHEN HAWKING
“I like physics, but I love cartoons.” ― Stephen Hawking
“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist…..Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist” ― Stephen Hawking
“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.” ― Stephen Hawking
“The universe doesn’t allow perfection.” ― Stephen Hawking
“When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s like asking directions to the edge of the earth; The Earth is a sphere; it doesn’t have an edge; so looking for it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god. No one created our universe,and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization; There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.” ― Stephen Hawking
“Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.”
― Stephen Hawking
“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?” ― Stephen Hawking
“I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die.” ― Stephen Hawking
“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.” ― Stephen Hawking
“The Universe in a Nutshell” ― Stephen Hawking
“Einstein never accepted that the universe was governed by chance; his feelings were summed up in his famous statement “God does not play dice.” ― Stephen Hawking
“In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.” ― Stephen Hawking
“why are we here? where do we come from? traditionally,these are questions for philosophy,but philosophy is dead” ― Stephen Hawking
“Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?” ― Stephen Hawking
“We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.” ― Stephen Hawking
“We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us.” ― Stephen Hawking
“People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.” ― Stephen Hawking
“I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.” ― Stephen Hawking
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” ― Stephen Hawking
“ You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.” ― Stephen Hawking
“So Einstein was wrong when he said, “God does not play dice.” Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can’t be seen.” ― Stephen Hawking
“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark” ― Stephen Hawking
“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.” ― Stephen Hawking
“What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn’t prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.” ― Stephen Hawking
“Time and space are finite in extent, but they don’t have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.” ― Stephen Hawking
“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.” ― Stephen Hawking
“One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.” ― Stephen Hawking
“I like physics, but I love cartoons.” ― Stephen Hawking
“The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves”
― Stephen Hawking
“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.” ― Stephen Hawking
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” ― Stephen Hawking
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.” ― Stephen Hawking
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” ― Stephen Hawking
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ” ― Stephen Hawking
“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.” ― Stephen Hawking
“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street” ― Stephen Hawking
“I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.” ― Stephen Hawking
“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” ― Stephen Hawking
“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.” ― Stephen Hawking
“We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe” ― Stephen Hawking
“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” ― Stephen Hawking
“What did God do before he created the universe?” ― Stephen Hawking
“Women. They are a complete mystery to me.” ― Stephen Hawking
“A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.” ― Stephen Hawking
“You cannot predict the future.” ― Stephen Hawking
“There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average” ― Stephen Hawking
“Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.” ― Stephen Hawking
