Stephen Hawking (nacido en 1942), físico inglés. Der Spiegel, 1989
Fuente: Citado en: 10000 Days: The rest of your life, the best of your life. Tom Hinton. The 10000 days Foundation. ISBN 0-9835032-0-6. ISBN 0-9835032-0-6. Pág. 70
Frases célebres de Stephen Hawking
Este pequeño discurso fue usado también por Hawkings en la inauguración de la décima edición de la Campus Party. Hawkings fue invitado por la organización a la tradicional encendida de ordenadores, aunque su presencia fue telemática.
Entrevista del diario The Guardian (15/05/2011)
Frases sobre el espacio. de Stephen Hawking
El gran diseño 2010
The Grand Design
A Briefer History of Time
Frases de Dios de Stephen Hawking
“Dios no solo juega a los dados, a veces los tira donde no se pueden ver.”
A Briefer History of Time
Stephen Hawking Frases y Citas
Discover, February 1987, p. 70.
A Briefer History of Time
“Cuando miramos al universo, lo vemos tal como fue en el pasado”
A Brief History of Time
“La ciencia podría afirmar que el universo tenía que haber conocido un comienzo.”
Agujeros negros y pequeños universos (y otros ensayos), editado en 1993.
Se refiere a que según él, Juan Pablo II le pidió que no estudiara el origen del universo, puesto que sólo compete a Dios.
The New York Times Magazine, “The Universe and Dr. Hawking”, por Michael Harwood, 23 de enero de 1983, p. 53. [Sin fuentes]
“"Cada vez que escucho hablar de ese gato, empiezo a sacar mi pistola".”
Acerca de la Paradoja de Schrödinger
A Briefer History of Time
Entrevista del diario El Mundo (26/10/2014)
Stephen Hawking: Frases en inglés
“Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.”
Fuente: A Brief History of Time (1988), Ch. 9
Contexto: Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can’t have a safer bet than that!
“God abhors a naked singularity.”
Fuente: A Brief History of Time
"The Quantum State of the Universe", Nuclear Physics (1984) <!-- B239, p. 258 -->
Contexto: Many people would claim that the boundary conditions are not part of physics but belong to metaphysics or religion. They would claim that nature had complete freedom to start the universe off any way it wanted. That may be so, but it could also have made it evolve in a completely arbitrary and random manner. Yet all the evidence is that it evolves in a regular way according to certain laws. It would therefore seem reasonable to suppose that there are also laws governing the boundary conditions.
“Women. They are a complete mystery.”
Response when asked what he thinks about most during the day, "Stephen Hawking at 70: Exclusive interview" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328460.500-stephen-hawking-at-70-exclusive-interview.html in New Scientist (4 January 2012)
Interview with Ken Campbell on Reality on the Rocks: Beyond Our Ken (1995) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3aadgf0GH8
The Beginning of Time (1996)
"Newton's Principia" in 300 Years of Gravitation. (1987) by S. W. Hawking and W. Israel, p. 4
Quoted in "Leaping the Abyss" (April 2002) by Gregory Benford, in Reason Magazine http://reason.com/archives/2002/04/01/leaping-the-abyss/4
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.”
Sometimes attributed to Hawking without a source, but originally from historian Daniel J. Boorstin. It appears in different forms in The Discoverers (1983), Cleopatra's Nose (1995), and introduction to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1995)
Misattributed
“I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?”
As quoted in a TED talk, " Asking Big Questions about the Universe http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/242"
“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.”
Plato, The Republic, Book VII, 531-E
Misattributed
“Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.”
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993)
Der Spiegel (17 October 1988)
with G.F.R. Ellis, "The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time" (1973) Preface
As quoted in "Return of the time lord" in The Guardian http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/scienceandnature/story/0,6000,1579384,00.html (27 September 2005)
"Stephen Hawking at 70: Exclusive interview" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328460.500-stephen-hawking-at-70-exclusive-interview.html in New Scientist, (4 January 2012). In his comment that he "used to think that information was destroyed in black holes", he is referring to the black hole information paradox.
Heard in person by this contributor when Hawking showed-up in a Caltech physics class taught by Robert Christy in 1980 or '81; when asked about collapse of the state-vector he whispered to his assistant Chris (surname unknown) something at which point Chris stood up and said 'Stephen is paraphrasing Herman Göring by saying "When I hear the words 'Schrödinger's Cat' I reach for my gun."'.
Fuente: In a conversation with Timothy Ferris (4 April 1983), as quoted in The Whole Shebang (1998) by Timothy Ferris, p. 345 http://books.google.com/books?id=qjYbQ7EBAKwC&lpg=PA345&ots=F6VWymjiPx&dq=%22reach%20for%20my%20revolver%22%20hawking%20-%22oft-made%22&pg=PA345#v=onepage&q=%22reach%20for%20my%20revolver%22%20hawking%20-%22oft-made%22&f=false
“The Dreams that Stuff is Made of”
Title of a collection, by Hawking, of the most significant papers in Quantum mechanics: The Dreams That Stuff Is Made of : The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World (2011)