Stephen Hawking (8 de janeiro de 1942 – Cambridge, 14 de março de 2018)

Morre Stephen Hawking, o gênio pop da física

Cientista britânico, que apresentou os mistérios do universo a milhões de leitores, tinha 76 anos e sofria de uma doença degenerativa

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Stephen Hawking, in His Own Words

“I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”

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In 2007, when he was 65, Stephen Hawking took part in a zero-gravity flight. Asked why he took such risks, he said, “I want to show that people need not be limited by physical handicaps as long as they are not disabled in spirit.”CreditZero Gravity Corp., via Associated Press

By Yonette Joseph

March 14, 2018

Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist who died at 76 in Cambridge, England,on Wednesday (Einstein’s birthday), never won a Nobel Prize. But his book “A Brief History of Time” made him a star beyond his field, and his penchant for dropping bons mots on subjects large and small made him an enduring pop culture figure.

Here is a selection of his quotes.

On Death

“I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”/.../

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Stephen Hawking on the Meaning of the Universe

A rare existential reflection from the man who set out to devise a theory of everything.

BY MARIA POPOVA

At twenty-two, Stephen Hawking (January 8, 1942–March 14, 2018) was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — a rare motor disease — and given a few years to live. He lived for more than half a century thereafter. Despite the increasing bodily limitations inflicted by the incurable disease, he went on to soar with a limitless mind that has impacted the course of modern physics perhaps more profoundly than any scientist since Albert Einstein. His theory of what is now known as Hawking radiation — the thermal electromagnetic radiation which quantum phenomena on the event horizon cause a black hole to emit — revolutionized our understanding of the most powerful objects in the known universe and, in consequence, of the universe itself. His pursuit of a “theory of everything” adrenalized the scientific community and his landmark 1988 book A Brief History of Time awakened generations of lay readers to the splendor of physics, welding science to the rest of culture.