Стивен Уильям Хокинг: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 4)
Стивен Уильям Хокинг было английский физик-теоретик и космолог, популяризатор науки. Цитаты на английском языке.“Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.”
Источник: A Brief History of Time (1988), Ch. 9
Контексте: Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can’t have a safer bet than that!
“God abhors a naked singularity.”
Источник: A Brief History of Time
"The Quantum State of the Universe", Nuclear Physics (1984) <!-- B239, p. 258 -->
Контексте: Many people would claim that the boundary conditions are not part of physics but belong to metaphysics or religion. They would claim that nature had complete freedom to start the universe off any way it wanted. That may be so, but it could also have made it evolve in a completely arbitrary and random manner. Yet all the evidence is that it evolves in a regular way according to certain laws. It would therefore seem reasonable to suppose that there are also laws governing the boundary conditions.
“Women. They are a complete mystery.”
Response when asked what he thinks about most during the day, "Stephen Hawking at 70: Exclusive interview" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328460.500-stephen-hawking-at-70-exclusive-interview.html in New Scientist (4 January 2012)
Interview with Ken Campbell on Reality on the Rocks: Beyond Our Ken (1995) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3aadgf0GH8
The Beginning of Time (1996)
"Newton's Principia" in 300 Years of Gravitation. (1987) by S. W. Hawking and W. Israel, p. 4
Quoted in "Leaping the Abyss" (April 2002) by Gregory Benford, in Reason Magazine http://reason.com/archives/2002/04/01/leaping-the-abyss/4
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.”
Sometimes attributed to Hawking without a source, but originally from historian Daniel J. Boorstin. It appears in different forms in The Discoverers (1983), Cleopatra's Nose (1995), and introduction to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1995)
Misattributed
“I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?”
As quoted in a TED talk, " Asking Big Questions about the Universe http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/242"
“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.”
Plato, The Republic, Book VII, 531-E
Misattributed