Stephen Hawking Quotes About Black Holes

Quotes about: Black Holes

• So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Play, Black

  Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose (2010). “The Nature of Space and Time”, p.26, Princeton University Press

• It 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 Hawking

  Loss, Thinking, Years

  "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

• There 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 Hawking

  Light, Black, Horizon

  "Stephen Hawking: There Are No Black Holes" by Audrey Barrick, www.christianpost.com. January 25, 2014.

• I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Black, Information

• thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes

  Stephen Hawking

  Black, Holes, Doomed

• I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.

  Stephen Hawking

  Children, Ideas, Black

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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