Stephen Hawking: Visionary physicist dies aged 76
Brilliant, funny, courageous…
A few quotes:
“It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.”
“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.”
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”
“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.”
“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
“I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.”
“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans. We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”
“I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.”
“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”
“The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognised. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away”
“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus”
Links
Stephen Hawking official website
Stephen Hawking at Wikipedia
The Theory of Everything movie (How to watch ‘The Theory of Everything’ Stephen Hawking biopic)
Stephen Hawking’s theory on everything, in his words
Stephen Hawking dies: Scientist’s most memorable quotes
Interesting Mr. Hawking spoke of God when referring to an Einstein quote. I had always assumed Mr. Hawking was a devout atheist.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/03/14/im-not-afraid-what-stephen-hawking-said-about-god-his-atheism-and-his-own-death/
Hawking is quoted as saying:
“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.”
Yeah but where did the “law of gravity” come from before the existence of the Universe?