Stephen Hawking citations

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Une brève histoire du temps, 1989

Question de sciences et vie : Parmi tous les scientifiques, lesquels vous ont le plus inspiré, et pourquoi ?

Citations extraites du livre Une brève histoire du temps (page 220)
Une brève histoire du temps, 1989

Selon le magazine La Recherche (numéro 370 de décembre 2003 à la page 34) http://www.larecherche.fr/savoirs/epistemologie/univers-est-il-intelligible-01-12-2003-84130, la formulation correcte est : L'éternellement incompréhensible à propos du monde est sa compréhensibilité.
Albert Einstein, Physique et réalité, 1936.
Y a-t-il un grand architecte dans l'univers ?, 2011

Question de sciences et vie : A plusieurs reprises, dans votre livre, vous mentionnez Dieu. Qu'entendez-vous exactement par Dieu ?

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Une brève histoire du temps, 1989

Source: A Brief History of Time (1988), Ch. 9
Contexte: 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!

Source: A Brief History of Time

Source: A Brief History of Time (1988), Ch. 8

Source: A Briefer History of Time

"The Quantum State of the Universe", Nuclear Physics (1984) <!-- B239, p. 258 -->
Contexte: 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.

Source: A Brief History of Time

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

The Beginning of Time (1996)

Quoted in "Leaping the Abyss" (April 2002) by Gregory Benford, in Reason Magazine http://reason.com/archives/2002/04/01/leaping-the-abyss/4

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

A Brief History of Time (1988)

As quoted in a TED talk, " Asking Big Questions about the Universe http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/242"

Plato, The Republic, Book VII, 531-E
Misattributed

Source: A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 179

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993)

Interview with The Guardian (15 May 2011)

Der Spiegel (17 October 1988)

The Grand Design (2010)

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."'.
Source: 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

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)