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Stephen Hawking

English Physicist

Born: Jan 8, 1942

Died: Mar 14, 2018

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Related authors: Albert Einstein Brian Greene J. Robert Oppenheimer Martin H. Fischer Michio Kaku Niels Bohr Richard P. Feynman Werner Heisenberg

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective. Stephen Hawking

Perspective Picture Believe Universe Broad Everyone Our Worries Puts Also How Human Place Should Basic Desire

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God. Stephen Hawking

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I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time. Stephen Hawking

Time Hate Want Much Wasting Wasting Time

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries. Stephen Hawking

Sometimes Disabilities Am Discoveries Wonder Wheelchair Famous

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion. Stephen Hawking

Religion Science Increasingly Answering Province Questions Used

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so. Stephen Hawking

Health Care Believe Say Health Care Am Afraid Universal

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. Stephen Hawking

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. Stephen Hawking

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Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. Stephen Hawking

Good Change Our Resources Earth Ability Finite Environment Along Planet Planet Earth Use Ill Exponentially Population Growing Technical Technical Ability

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions. Stephen Hawking

Made Important Living Think Plenty Admire See Only Dead Retrospect Because Scientists Contributions Any Who

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution. Stephen Hawking

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone. Stephen Hawking

Work Science Generation Inspire Building Before Young Gone Aiming Once Step New Come New Generation Scientists Continue Us Shoulders

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition. Stephen Hawking

Positive Myself Me Before Others Worse Say About Could Developed Because Still Were Condition Motor Off Than Get Disease Taught Pity Happier Much Now

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. Stephen Hawking

Power Become Energy Fusion Would Supply Like Global Global Warming Practical Without Inexhaustible Provide Source Pollution Warming Nuclear

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Stephen Hawking

Law Will Nothing Universe Because Itself Create Gravity

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind. Stephen Hawking

Reality Mind Reach Beyond Opinion Human In My Opinion Aspect Human Mind

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it. Stephen Hawking

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time. Stephen Hawking

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The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. Stephen Hawking

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We live in a bewildering world. Stephen Hawking

World Live Bewildering

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