Stephen Hawking híres idézetei
Stephen Hawking idézetek
Stephen Hawking: Idézetek angolul
“Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.”
Stephen Hawking könyv A Brief History of Time
Forrás: A Brief History of Time (1988), Ch. 9
Kontextus: 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.”
Stephen Hawking könyv A Brief History of Time
Forrás: A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking könyv A Brief History of Time
Forrás: A Brief History of Time (1988), Ch. 8
Stephen Hawking könyv A Briefer History of Time
Forrás: A Briefer History of Time
"The Quantum State of the Universe", Nuclear Physics (1984) <!-- B239, p. 258 -->
Kontextus: 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.
Stephen Hawking könyv A Brief History of Time
Forrás: A Brief History of Time
“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
Stephen Hawking könyv A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time (1988)
“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
Stephen Hawking könyv A Brief History of Time
Forrás: A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 179
“Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.”
Stephen Hawking könyv Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993)
Der Spiegel (17 October 1988)
Stephen Hawking könyv The Grand Design
The Grand Design (2010)
Stephen Hawking könyv The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
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."'. <br class="br">Forrás: 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)
