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Stephen Hawking
English
Physicist
Born:
Jan 8
,
1942
Died:
Mar 14
,
2018
Me
People
Science
Think
Time
Universe
Related authors:
Albert Einstein
Brian Greene
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Martin H. Fischer
Michio Kaku
Niels Bohr
Richard P. Feynman
Werner Heisenberg
Nothing cannot exist forever.
Stephen Hawking
Nothing
Exist
Forever
Cannot
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
Stephen Hawking
Beautiful
Science
Physics
Simple
Biology
Examples
Observations
Between
Makes
Equations
Different
Explanations
Double
Connections
Include
Fundamental
Phenomena
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
Life
Nature
Own
Human Nature
Think
Our
Viruses
Says
Destructive
Purely
About
Something
Only
Computer
Count
Computers
Human
Form
Far
Created
Should
Image
There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.
Stephen Hawking
People
Stars
Shadow
Could
Galaxies
Even
A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?
Stephen Hawking
Saying
Reality
Pet
Picture
Few
Sides
Gazing
Distorted
Out
Would
City
City Council
Council
Cruel
True
Know
Bowl
Bowls
Because
How
Fish
Years
Years Ago
Italy
Owners
Goldfish
View
Barred
Keep
Keeping
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.
Stephen Hawking
Big
Before
Stars
Universe
Too
Other
Hundred
Rapidly
Thousand
Would
Rate
Had
Part
Smaller
Reached
Greater
Big Bang
Been
Hand
Expansion
Bang
Size
Form
After
Planets
Even
Million
Present
Second
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.
Stephen Hawking
Key
Research
Others
Embryos
Objection
Fact
Parkinson
Stem
Stem Cell
Stem Cell Research
Developing
Come
Like
Because
Motor
Conditions
Cures
Disease
Cell
Die
Cell Research
Going
Cells
May
Anyway
Which
Many
Suffer
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.
Stephen Hawking
Me
Physics
School
Father
Thought
Made
Chemistry
Biology
Jobs
Would
Would-Be
He
Because
Boy
Least
Math
Mathematicians
Did
Wanted
Less
Bright
Brightest
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
Stephen Hawking
Time
Myself
Good
College
Busy
Too
Spend
Good Student
Student
Did
Much
Enjoying
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.
Stephen Hawking
Superman
Everything
Would
Superhero
Had
Pick
He
Choose
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
Stephen Hawking
Physics
Joy
Before
Research
Something
Winning
No-One
Knew
Discovering
Prize
Intention
I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.
Stephen Hawking
Good
Morning
Only
Never
Get
Any
Going
After
Afternoon
Four
What was God doing before the divine creation?
Stephen Hawking
God
Before
Creation
Divine
Doing
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
Stephen Hawking
Time
Drop
Monroe
Machine
Telescope
Visit
Had
He
Prime
His
Heavens
Galileo
Turned
Her
Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe
In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.
Stephen Hawking
Own
Stars
Think
Universe
Our
Hundred
Hundred Years
Way
Sun
Ourselves
Find
New
Years
Than
Sitting
New Way
Just
Just One
Center
Which
Galaxy
Less
Found
Now
Milky Way
Millions
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.
Stephen Hawking
Hope
Science
People
Physics
Mystery
Understood
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Show
Helped
Profile
Raise
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
Simple
Understanding
Universe
Complete
Complete Understanding
Goal
Exists
Why
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
Stephen Hawking
Death
Day
Three
Babies
Other
Hundred
Later
Hundred Years
Astronomy
Thousand
Exactly
Born
About
Know
Also
However
Were
Years
Any
After
Estimate
Whether
Interested
January
Them
Galileo
Two
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
Stephen Hawking
Wait
Will
Slow
Engineering
Increase
Changes
Our
Complexity
See
Able
Slow Process
About
Genetic
Genetic Engineering
Because
Years
Effect
Improve
Human
Process
Race
Human Race
Code
I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Stephen Hawking
Nothing
Universe
Something
Know
Greater
Exists
Than
Want
Why
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
Stephen Hawking
Success
History
Technology
Risks
AI
Unless
Would
Would-Be
Also
Learn
How
Human
Biggest
Unfortunately
Might
Human History
Creating
Avoid
Event
Last
So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
Stephen Hawking
Long
Edge
Beginning
Universe
Neither
Would
Having
Could
Had
Simply
Self-Contained
Boundary
Suppose
Nor
End
Place
Then
Really
Creator
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
Stephen Hawking
Life
War
Thought
Other
Virus
Earth
Dangers
Out
Risk
Wiped
Genetically
Disaster
Global
Being
Engineered
Sudden
Nuclear
Nuclear War
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
Stephen Hawking
Intelligence
Will
Add
Danger
Direct
Rather
Take
Computers
Develop
Over
Real
Opposition
Brain
Than
Human
Urgently
Human Intelligence
Connections
Need
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
Stephen Hawking
Work
Alone
Challenge
Alien
Thinking
Out
About
Rational
Perfectly
Like
Make
Real
Mathematical
Brain
Might
Work Out
Actually
Numbers
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
Stephen Hawking
Value
Action
Our
Seek
Greatest
Should
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