Stephen Hawking
English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
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.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.