Stephen Hawking Birthday: Top 10 Quotes from the great scientist worth Memorizing

Stephen Hawking Birthday: Stephen Hawking is one of the great scientists of the world. Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, to Frank and Isabel Hawking. In 1962, he did research on cosmology in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physical (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge. Stephen Hawking’s book ‘A Brief History of Time’, published in the year 1998, created panic all over the world. In this book, he explained difficult topics of cosmology such as the ‘Big Bang Theory and black holes in such a simple way that even an ordinary reader can understand them easily. Stephen Hawking made a significant contribution to the understanding of black holes and the Big Bang theory. He received 12 honorary degrees and America’s highest civilian honour, The Congressional Gold Medal. At the age of 21, Stephen Hawking was struck by a terrible disease. After which his doctors had said that he would not be able to live more than two years, Stephen Hawking died on 14 March 2018 at the age of 76.

Today on the occasion of Stephen hawking’s birthday, here we have enlisted Top 10 Quotes from the great scientist worth Memorizing.

Stephen Hawking Birthday: Top 10 Quotes from the great scientist worth Memorizing

“I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.”

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Stephen Hawking

“Humanity’s deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.”

“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.”

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. -Stephen Hawking

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We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain to look inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. Stephen Hawking

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special.”