More Quotes by Stephen Hawking
It is like a drinking straw. The surface of a straw is two-dimensional. However, one direction is curled up into a small circle, so that from a distance the straw looks like a one-dimensional line.
This means that at earlier times objects would have been closer together. In fact, it seemed that there was a time, about ten or twenty thousand million years ago, when they were all at exactly the same place and when, therefore, the density of the universe was infinite.
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer.
The laws of physics demand the existence of something called ‘negative energy’.
The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.
You can’t get to a time before the Big Bang because there was no time before the Big Bang. We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in.
The basic assumption of science is scientific determinism.
[If] there were such a God, I would like to ask however did he think of anything as complicated as M-theory in eleven dimensions.
Estoy convencido de que los humanos necesitamos dejar la Tierra para evitar correr el riesgo de ser aniquilados.
