Stephen Hawking1942–2018The quotations of
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author
1942–2018
16 quotes, most often on Science, Technology and God. Part of the Scientists collection.
Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
During the same 1994 exchange with Penrose as the previous quote, transcribed in The Nature of Space and Time (1996) by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, p. 26 and also in “The Nature of Space and Time” (online text)- A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 122
- A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 174
- Der Spiegel (17 October 1988)
- Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston, as quoted in The Daily News (4 August 1994). A nearly identical quote can be found at the end of the second paragraph of his lecture Life in the Universe (1996).
- A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 174
Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993)- During the same 1994 exchange with Penrose as the previous quote, transcribed in The Nature of Space and Time (1996) by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, p. 26 and also in “The Nature of Space and Time” (online text)
- Lecture at the Amsterdam Symposium on Gravity, Black Holes, and String Theory (21 June 1997)
- From Hawking’s article A Brief History of Relativity, in Time magazine (31 December 1999)
So if you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There’s a way out.
Reith Lecture 2: Black holes ain’t as black as they are painted (2015) · BBC Radio 4 audio fileDisorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 147- Reith Lecture 2: Black holes ain’t as black as they are painted (2015) · BBC Radio 4 audio file
- Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993), pp. 133–135.
