史提芬·霍金

維基語錄，自由的名人名言錄

史蒂芬·威廉·霍金，（Stephen William Hawking，1942年1月8日－），英國著名物理學家，在公眾評價中，被譽為是繼愛因斯坦之後最傑出的理論物理學家之一。他提出宇宙大爆炸自奇點開始，時間由此刻開始，黑洞最終會蒸發，在統一20世紀物理學的兩大基礎理論——愛因斯坦的相對論和普朗克的量子論方面走出了重要一步。

[編輯] 語錄

• 「愛因斯坦錯了－－他說『上帝不玩骰子』。對黑洞的研究表明，上帝不光玩骰子，甚至有時候他會把我們弄糊塗，因為他把它們丟到了看不見的地方。」
  • "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."
• 「我注意過，即便是那些聲稱一切都是命中注定的而且我們無力改變的人，在過馬路之前都會左右看。」
  • "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."
• 「我的目標很簡單，就是把宇宙整個明白——它為何如此，它為何存在。」
  • "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
• 「有人告訴我說我載入書中的每個等式都會讓銷量減半。然而，我還是把一個等式寫進書中－－愛因斯坦最有名的那個，E=mc2 。但願這不會嚇跑我一半的潛在讀者。」
  • "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. In the end, however, I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = mc2. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers."
• 「在我 21 歲時，我的期望值變成了零。自那以後，一切都變成了額外津貼。」
  • "My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."
• 「為了合理的展示這張圖標，我真的需要一個四維的屏幕。然而，由於政府的削減，我只能想方設法提供一個二維的屏幕。」
  • "To show this diagram properly, I would really need a four dimensional screen. However, because of government cuts, we could manage to provide only a two dimensional screen."
• 「如果生活沒有了樂趣，那將是一場悲劇。」
  • "Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
• 「永恆是很長的時間，特別是對盡頭而言。」
  • "Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end."
• （當被問及其電子擬音器的美國口音時，霍金回應到：）「我發現美國和斯堪的納維亞口音對女人尤其管用」
  • "I find that American & Scandinavian accents work better with women." In response to a question about the American accent of his synthesiser.
• 「通觀整個科學史，人們已漸漸明白，事件不會以隨意的方式發生——它們反映了某些基本的秩序，這可能是——也可能不是——有神力相助的。」
  • "The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."