That was evident to his mother, who, along with her children, often stretched out in the backyard on summer evenings to stare up at the stars. He wanted his eldest child to go into medicine, but at an early age, Hawking showed a passion for science and the sky.

In 1950, Hawking's father took work to manage the Division of Parasitology at the National Institute of Medical Research, and spent the winter months in Africa doing research. The Hawkings also housed bees in the basement and produced fireworks in the greenhouse. Albans was a three-story fixer-upper that never quite got fixed. The family car was an old London taxi, and their home in St. Dinner was often eaten in silence, each of the Hawkings intently reading a book. The Hawkings, as one close family friend described them, were an 'eccentric' bunch. And their second son, Edward, was adopted in 1956. The Hawkings would go on to have two other children, Mary and Philippa. In an effort to seek a safer place, Isobel returned to Oxford to have the couple's first child. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.” We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. are losers.” “We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life. Examples include the double helix in biology, and the fundamental equations of physics.” “People who boast about their I.Q. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” “Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.” “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.” “It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.” “If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist.” “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.” “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. There had not seemed to be anything worth doing.” “I believe that life on Earth is at an ever increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” “Not only does God definitely play dice, but He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” “Before my condition was diagnosed, I had been very bored with life.

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