Category: physicist
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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen Hawking
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We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.
Richard P. Feynman
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Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren’t equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it’s just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.
Stephen Hawking
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I had not expected ‘A Brief History of Time’ to be a best seller.
Stephen Hawking
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei
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Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.
Stephen Hawking
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I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‘Einstein.’
Stephen Hawking
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We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.
Stephen Hawking
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I have wondered about time all my life.
Stephen Hawking
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There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.
Stephen Hawking