15 life quotes from Stephen Hawking Bashny.Net

Stephen Hawking (Stephen Hawking) is one of the smartest people of our time, a cosmologist, theoretical physicist and popularizer of science. In this article we have compiled quotes English scholar who deserve attention.

One of the main merits of Stephen Hawking is to popularize fundamental science. He, like Carl Sagan (Carl Sagan) tries in simple language to convey complex scientific topics: the structure of the Universe, the organization of time and space, interactions of elementary particles. His books fly around the world in huge numbers.

We can learn from Hawking, especially knowing that he has long confined to a wheelchair and this disease was not an obstacle to a happy life.





1. "Everything is predetermined. But we can assume that no, since we don't know what exactly determined."

2."It is better to seek understanding than to despair, to doubt in the human mind".

3."If you feel yourself falling into a black hole, don't give up. There is a way".

4."Surfing the Internet is as brainless idea, as the constant switching of TV channels".

5."The prospect of early death made me realize that life is worth to live it".

6."Response to Einstein saying "God does not play dice with the Universe":

The Lord not only plays dice but also sometimes throws them where we cannot see."

7."The main enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge."

8."There is a fundamental difference between religion based on dogma, and science, based on observation and logic. Science will win because it works".

9."Space and time not only affect everything that happens in the Universe, but themselves change under the influence of it happening".

10."Science fiction can be useful: it stimulates the imagination and gets rid of the fear of the future. However, the scientific facts can be much more striking. Science fiction had not even imagined the existence of such things as black holes."

11."While most scientists are too busy with development of new theories that describe what is the universe, and they have no time to ask yourself why it is there. Philosophers whose work is to ask the question "why", I can't keep up with the development of scientific theories. In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole human knowledge, including science, the field of its activities and engaged in discussion of questions such as: did the Universe start?

But the calculations and the mathematical apparatus of science of the XIX and XX centuries. have become too complicated for philosophers and for all but specialists. Philosophers has so narrowed its requests, the most famous philosopher of our century-Wittgenstein on this occasion said: "the Only thing that remains of philosophy is the analysis of language." What a humiliation for philosophy with its great tradition from Aristotle to Kant!"

12."Among all the systems that we have, the most difficult is our own body."

13."Astrologers are smart enough to make their predictions so vague that they can be attributed to any outcome".

14."School science is often taught in a dry and uninteresting form. Children learn rote memorization to pass the exam, and not see the connection of science with the outside world."

15."I'm not sure that the human race will live at least another thousand years, if you do not find the opportunity to escape into space. There are many scenarios of how this can die all living on a small planet. But I am optimistic. We'll reach the stars".published

 

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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