Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist. In 1963, Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College.
From 1979 to 2009 he held the post of Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663. Professor Hawking has over a dozen honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Science. Stephen Hawking is regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein.
Born:8 January 1942
Stephen Hawking dies aged 76
Notable awards :
Albert Einstein Award (1978)
Wolf Prize (1988)
Prince of Asturias Award (1989)
Copley Medal (2006)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009)
Special Fundamental Physics Prize (2012)
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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Nothing cannot exist forever.
There is no unique picture of reality.
My work and my family are very important to me.
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We should seek the greatest value of our action.
You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.
The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.
The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand time smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965.
Never scrub your arse with a wire brush.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
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.
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
God not only plays dice, He also confuses us sometimes and throws the dice where they can’t be seen.
