Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Stephen HawkingIt is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen HawkingIf I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.
Stephen HawkingThere are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.
Stephen HawkingIf there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.
Stephen Hawking