RIP: Stephen Hawking’s Most Inspiring Quotes Are More Relevant Than Ever

He added that “I will always be grateful for his Millennium lecture at the White House and his contributions to the Clinton Global Initiative”.

“My love and thoughts are with his extraordinary family”.

Stephen Hawking had a remarkable sense of humour.

“For most people it was his communication of science“, said Ben Newling, the acting chair of the physics department at the University of New Brunswick and a longtime admirer of Hawking.

Hawking was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences since 1986. Even years after his diagnosis, he often felt he didn’t have long to live so he was determined to complete as much as possible. He died at the age of 76 on 14th of March 2017.

The two had met in 2014, during a charity event in London’s St. James’ Palace. Realizing that our paths will cross, Gerry and I both tried to get Hans to stop and engage Hawking, imagining that Hawking would be delighted to meet the eminent Bethe, victor of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his discovery of how stars generate the energy to shine. Hawking replied with humor, saying: “Yes, it is copyrighted actually”. His interview with John Oliver perhaps remains one of the most enduring reminders of the same.

Working with Roger Penrose, the two showed that the Big Bang could have had its beginnings from a singularity – a one-dimensional point where space and time breaks down and density and gravity become infinite – a point that is theorised to exist deep within a black hole. His death may have robbed the world of one of its greatest minds, but his work will push the limits of science decades or even centuries after his passing.

“It was truly such an honor getting to work with the incredible Stephen Hawking“, Kaley Cuoco said. He declined to comment on whether Hawking should have been awarded the prestigious prize, in line with the Nobel policy. Above and beyond the great research he did, his impact as a communicator was fantastic. He fought to extend this deadline several times over. He visited the royal palace in Stockholm in August 2015.

Hawking was courageous in many ways – and he was also an incredibly brilliant thinker who revolutionized science and modern cosmology. “He was a warrior”.

Newling grew up to study in a different branch of physics but said having someone like Hawking to model as a “science communicator” has been important for the science community and has helped “capture the public’s imagination”.

“Unfortunately, Eddie [Redmayne] did not inherit my good looks.” – of the Oscar-winning actor who portrayed him in “The Theory of Everything.” He went through harder times than many of us will ever know in terms of his physical decline. This approach shows convincingly that black holes do not violate any laws, and (by amending Hawking’s theory just a tiny bit) that theory can be appreciated in all its beauty.

There are few scientists who reach as far into popular culture as Stephen Hawking did.

“He was of course a very great physicist and one of the greatest physicists of his generation”, Stephen M. Barr, a particle physics and cosmology researcher who is a professor at the University of DE said.

As a theoretical physicist, Mr Hawking was adamant about his belief in the non-existence of God.

The ALS Association reported that five per cent of ALS patients survived 20 years or more.

Meanwhile, Lord Rees – who holds the most prestigious post in astronomy in the United Kingdom – recalled meeting Prof Hawking at Cambridge University in 1964, describing him as “unsteady on his feet and speaking with great difficulty” following his diagnosis with the degenerative disease.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, broadcaster Prof Brian Cox called him “one of the greats” and said physicists in 1,000 years’ time “will still be talking about Hawking radiation”, his theory about black holes.

On Wednesday it was announced that Hawking had passed away, after complications due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease.