Stephen Hawking

(1942–2018) · British Physicist

English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge

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Stephen Hawking

(1942–2018) · British Physicist

English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.
God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

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