Stephen Hawking Quotes

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

I'd really like to go on a date with Stephen Hawking. I just think we'd have really good chat. I'd just like to sit and listen to him.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

[My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great.

Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation.

You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.

We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.

The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science.

My work on black holes was on the connection between black holes and elementary particles.

My work indicated that if we consider smaller and smaller black holes, at some stage, the properties of black holes become indistinguishable from those of elementary particles.

I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.

Earlier today, we got a call from Stephen Hawking. He's a genius, and after 6,028 shows he ran the numbers and he said it works out to about eight minutes of laughter.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.

Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what we're dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.

I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.

General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.

I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.