Stephen Hawking Quotes


I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.


Citations

Hawking, Stephen. "Stephen Hawking: 'I would not be here today if it were not for the NHS'." Interview by Robert Booth, The Guardian, 12 Aug. 2009.

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At the time there were some religious extremists who interfered with important research as they did not believe that man should try and do what before only God could do. In modern times the religious interference in scientific research has tended to be about research involving contraception, abortion or embryonic stem cell research. The most dangerous by the 21st century were the PETA and other “animal rights” terrorist groups who not only physically sabotaged some scientific research but harmed people and endangered human life in the process. Note that Dewey placed the moral burden on society to enable scientific research, not just to resist special interests opposing science.


Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
  • Born: January 8, 1942
  • Died: March 14, 2018
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Physicist

Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009.