Stephen Hawking - Imaginary time is a new dimension, at...

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.

Stephen Hawking

Biography

Author Profession: Physicist

Nationality: English

Born: January 8, 1942

Died: March 14, 2018

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Related Authors

Albert Einstein, Richard P. Feynman, Niels Bohr, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Michio Kaku, Martin H. Fischer, Werner Heisenberg, Brian Greene

Topics

Angles, Dimension, Imaginary, New, Ordinary, Real, Real Time, Right, Time

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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.

Stephen Hawking

Motivational Stars You Look

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Stephen Hawking

Life Success You Succeed Difficult

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

Change Intelligence Ability Adapt

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Stephen Hawking

Looking Stupidity Greed Small

Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.

Stephen Hawking

Die Research Key Others

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Stephen Hawking

Science Time You Travel

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Stephen Hawking

I Am Child Never Find

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

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Power Global Warming Pollution Energy

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Stephen Hawking

Good Women Mathematics Men

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

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Stars Sun Way Think

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

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Science You Believe Always

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

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Success Technology History Risks

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.

Stephen Hawking

Wait Will See Process

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Stephen Hawking

Beautiful Science Simple Biology

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