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Stephen Hawking Quotes

Stephen Hawking quotes about science

English Physicist January 8, 1942

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The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line. Stephen Hawking
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
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. Stephen Hawking
In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, "The sole remaining... Stephen Hawking
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. Stephen Hawking
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. Stephen Hawking
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works. Stephen Hawking
The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them Stephen Hawking
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking quote: "Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in..."
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking quote: "Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of..."
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. Stephen Hawking
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking quote: "The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that..."
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. Stephen Hawking

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