English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Computers double their performance every month.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.
Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.