This March 14 HE five years after deathin Cambridge England, of the famous theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist and science popularizer Stephen Hawkingwho passed away at age 76.
Regarded as one of the ten smartest people on the planetwith a IQ of 160the author of “Brief history of time” occupied a place as teacher in the University of Cambridgebetween 1979 and 2009, the same chair of mathematics in which taught Isaac Newtonhis idol.
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Their most important jobs consisted of contributealong with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding spatiotemporal singularities in it framework of general relativityand the theoretical prediction that the black holes would emit radiationwhich is known today as Hawking radiation.
Among his many reflections, we chose those that we believe reflect his thinking and the vision he had of the world and the universe.
- “We are running out of space and the only spaces we can go to are other worlds”
- “We are just an advanced race of monkeys on a planet less than an average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us very special”.
- “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
- “There is no single image of reality.”
- “I think that extraterrestrial life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is not so common. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.”
- “If you understand the Universe, in some way you control it.”
- “No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.”
- “While 9/11 was horrible, it did not threaten the survival of the human race the way nuclear weapons do.”
- “The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.”
- “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”