Stephen William Hawkins's Life And Accomplishments

Stephen William Hawkins was born in Oxford, England, on January 8, 1942 fun fact this was the same day as the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo another well-known mathematician / physicist

He was the eldest of four children, Stephen Hawkins was born into a family of thinkers. His Scottish mother named Isobel earned her way into Oxford University in the 1930s a time when few women could go to college. His father frank, another Oxford graduate, was a respected medical researcher with a specialty in tropical diseases.

Stephen Hawkins's was born at the wrong time seeing that his parents didn’t have enough money to take care of a child also England was dealing with World War II and with barrage of German bombs. To seek a safer place, his

He wanted his eldest child to go into medicine, but at an early age, Hawkins showed a passion for science and the sky. 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. "Stephen always had a powerful sense of wonder," she remembered. "And I could see that the stars would draw him."

Hawkins was also frequently on the go. With his sister Mary, Hawkins, who loved to climb, devised different entry routes into the family home. He loved to dance and took an interest in rowing, becoming a team coxswain in

Stephen Hawkins quotes

• "Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

• All my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. 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."

• Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and