Quotes from Stephen Hawking

Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding

Pada waktu itu, kecuali kita sudah ke luar Tata Surya, umat manusia akan telah lama punah, musnah bersama-sama Matahari kita!

Esto no debería preocuparnos demasiado, puesto que para entonces, a menos que tengamos colonias más allá del sistema solar, la humanidad habrá desaparecido hace tiempo, extinguida con la muerte de nuestro Sol.

Banyak orang tak suka gagasan bahwa waktu punya permulaan, barangkali karena terkesan melibatkan campur tangan Ilahi.

We must be careful, though, that we don't confuse the issue by contaminating the planet with life from Earth. Similarly, we must be very careful not to bring back any Martian life. We would have no resistance to it, and it might wipe out life on Earth.

Einstein was awarded the Nobel prize for his contribution to quantum theory. Nevertheless, Einstein never accepted that the universe was governed by chance; his feelings were summed up in his famous statement, 'God does not play dice.

What came before the Big Bang? According to the no-boundary proposal, asking what came before the Big Bang is meaningless—like asking what is south of the South Pole—because there is no notion of time available to refer to. The concept of time only exists within our universe.

En consecuencia, si solo sabemos lo que ha sucedido desde el big bang, no podemos determinar lo que sucedió antes. Para nosotros, los sucesos anteriores al big bang no pueden tener consecuencias, de modo que no deberían formar parte de un modelo científico del universo. Por eso deberíamos eliminarlos del modelo y decir que el tiempo tuvo un comienzo en el big bang.

In physics the smallest doll is called the Planck length and is a millimetre divided by a 100,000 billion billion billion.

El pasado nos dice quién somos; sin él, perdemos nuestra identidad.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

dan kesadaran mengenai betapa kecilnya planet kita sendiri di tengah luasnya alam semesta, hanyalah titik awal.

We could be bounded in a nutshell and count ourselves kings of infinite space.

we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe.

Doktrin determinisme sains ditolak banyak orang yang merasa doktrin itu membatasi kebebasan Tuhan untuk campur tangan di dunia.

Kita jelas tak bisa memprediksi peristiwa masa depan dengan tepat jika tak bisa mengukur keadaan alam semesta sekarang dengan tepat! Kita masih dapat membayangkan ada set hukum yang mengatur peristiwa sepenuhnya bagi suatu sosok supranatural, yang dapat mengamati keadaan semesta sekarang tanpa mengganggu.

Aristotle, and most of the other Greek philosophers, on the other hand, did not like the idea of a creation because it smacked too much of divine intervention.

Remember to 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.

One of the big questions we discussed was the origin of the universe, and whether it required a God to create it and set it going.

Mungkin saja ada antidunia dan antimanusia yang terbuat dari antizadah. Tapi kalau Anda bertemu anti-Anda, jangan berjabat tangan! Kalian berdua bakal lenyap menjadi kilatan cahaya.

In 2016 I joined with the entrepreneur Yuri Milner to launch Breakthrough Starshot, a long-term research and development programme aimed at making interstellar travel a reality. If we succeed, we will send a probe to Alpha Centauri within the lifetime of people alive today.

las personas siempre se aferrarán a la religión, porque proporciona consuelo, y porque no confían ni entienden la ciencia.

Moore's Law, which says that their speed and complexity double every eighteen months.

in a famous paper in 1905, a hitherto unknown clerk in the Swiss patent office, Albert Einstein, pointed out that the whole idea of an ether was unnecessary, providing one was willing to abandon the idea of absolute time.