Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.Stephen Hawking
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
— STEPHEN HAWKING
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist · 1942 – 2018
Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist who predicted that black holes emit radiation, now called Hawking radiation. Diagnosed with motor neurone disease at 21 and given a few years to live, he spent over five decades in a wheelchair communicating through a speech synthesizer. His book A Brief History of Time (1988) sold more than 10 million copies and made him the world's most famous scientist.
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