... mas, socorrendo-se de Hawking, o pessoal do PS pode sempre argumentar que tudo aconteceu num universo paralelo... (para onde há quem queira voltar)

Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark"

"Stephen Hawking: I fear I may not be welcome in Donald Trump's US"

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Stephen Hawking says we should really be scared of capitalism, not robots

"¿Cree que se puede ser un buen científico y creer en Dios?

Stephen Hawking - Utilizo la palabra 'Dios' en un sentido impersonal, igual que hacía Einstein, para referirme a las leyes de la naturaleza.

Usted ha dicho que no hace falta Dios para explicar el Universo tal como es. ¿Piensa que algún día los seres humanos abandonarán la religión y a Dios?

SH - Las leyes de la ciencia bastan para explicar el origen del Universo. No es necesario invocar a Dios" (daqui)

Stephen Hawking's big ideas made simple

"Não há nenhum deus. Sou ateu. A religião acredita em milagres, mas estes são incompatíveis com a ciência" (Stephen Hawking)

JINGOBÉ, JINGOBÉ, FUCK CHRISTMAS! (XXIV)

Casey McKinnon - "Santa is an Atheist"

Early this year, he thought he'd take a course

I'm talkin' about Saint Nick, of course

Well, he went to college and had some fun

And signed up for Physics 101

He learned of quarks and quasars and photons too

The big bang theory that created me and you

He read a Hawking book that said "God had no course

in creating our dear universe"

Now Santa is an atheist

He found the Christ in mas just didn't exist

How can he continue to compile his list?

Oh, Santa is an atheist

At first old Nick was seemingly confused

So he did some math to see if it could be proved

He thought hard and worried 'til he realized

That Christmas didn't need to be deified

So Santa is an atheist

He found the Christ in mas just didn't exist

He hoped his wife and elves would get the gist

'Cause Santa is an atheist

But with a few more calculations, poor Santa disproved himself!

Oh, Santa was an atheist

Though I'm pretty sure he did never exist

May be nice to pretend, but I have to insist

That Santa was an atheist

The moral of the story is good and clear

You don't have to be a theist to spread some cheer

There may not be a god, but at least we got a tree

The log channel, eggnog, and you and me.

"THERE IS NO HEAVEN OR AFTERLIFE. THAT IS A FAIRY STORY"

"Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in" (Stephen Hawking, aqui)

(2011)

GOLDFISH BOWL

"A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved goldfish bowls. The measure's sponsor explained the measure in part by saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, indistorted picture of reality? Might not we ourselves be inside some big goldfish bowl and have our vision distorted by an enormous lens? The goldfish's picture of reality is different from ours, but can we be sure it is less real?" (Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design)

(2010)

... NOW STOP WORRYING AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE

"Stephen Hawking says universe was not created by God" - In the new work, The Grand Design, Professor Stephen Hawking argues that the Big Bang, rather than occurring following the intervention of a divine being, was inevitable due to the law of gravity. (...) 'Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing', he writes. '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. (...) The fact that we human beings – who are ourselves mere collections of fundamental particles of nature – have been able to come this close to an understanding of the laws governing us and our universe is a great triumph'".

Afinal, nada que Laplace, há 200 anos, não tivesse já explicado a Napoleão:

Pierre-Simon Laplace - Madame Feytaud, 1842

"Laplace went in state to Napoleon to accept a copy of his work [Mécanique Céleste], and the following account of the interview is well authenticated, and so characteristic of all the parties concerned that I quote it in full. Someone had told Napoleon that the book contained no mention of the name of God; Napoleon, who was fond of putting embarrassing questions, received it with the remark, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its Creator'. Laplace, who, though the most supple of politicians, was as stiff as a martyr on every point of his philosophy, drew himself up and answered bluntly, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là'. ("I had no need of that hypothesis"). (aqui)

(2010)

THE PALLACE OF FOELICITYE

Thomas Digges, 1576

Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke

(2008)