Madrid. This March 14 marks the fourth anniversary of the death in 2018, in Cambridge (England), of the famous English theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist and science popularizer Stephen Hawking. He was 76 years old.
Considered one of the ten smartest people on the planet, with an IQ of 160, the author of brief history of time Between 1979 and 2009, he held the same Mathematics chair at the University of Cambridge where Isaac Newton taught.
His most important works consisted of contributing, together with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding space-time singularities within the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes would emit radiation, which is known today as Hawking radiation. .
Among his many reflections, here we have chosen ten that can summarize his thoughts 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 minor planet of 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 extraterrestrial life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is not so common. Some say that it has yet to appear on planet Earth.”
— “If you understand the Universe, you somehow control it.”
— “No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.”
— “As horrible as 9/11 was, it didn’t 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.”
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