In a lecture in 2001, Stephen Hawking stated " The reason most scientists don't believe in astrology is because it is not consistent with our theories that have been tested by experiment.

However, in the late sixties Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking used global techniques to prove that singularities appear generically.

One consequence of this is that in standard general relativity, the universe began with a singularity, as demonstrated by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose in the 1960s.

Other distinguished researchers have been affiliated with Caltech as postdoctoral scholars ( for example, Barbara McClintock, James D. Watson and Sheldon Glashow ) or visiting professors ( for example, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Edward Witten ).

In 1991, John Preskill and Kip Thorne bet against Stephen Hawking that the hypothesis was false.

According to this argument, made by scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, it would be improbable for life not to exist somewhere other than Earth.

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in 2010 warned that humans should not try to contact alien life forms.

The term is used in various ways: to refer to a particular aspect of an individual, or the individual in their entirety ; to a scholar in many subjects ( e. g. Isaac Newton or Leonardo da Vinci ) or a scholar in a single subject ( e. g., Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking ).

* Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, includes a brief popular overview.

Stephen Hawking had shown earlier that the total horizon area of a collection of black holes always increases with time.

* 1942 – Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and author

File: Barack Obama speaks to Stephen Hawking. jpg | President Barack Obama talks with Stephen Hawking in the Blue Room of the White House before a ceremony presenting him and 15 others the Presidential Medal of Freedom, August 12, 2009.

‪ File: Stephen Hawking. StarChild. jpg ‬‬| Stephen Hawking ( 1942 -): provided, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarded the occurrance of gravitational singularities in the framework of general relativity, theoretically predicted that black holes should emit radiation ( Hawking radiation )‬‬‬‬

Celebrities and politicians appear as well, including " Bobdole " ( who looks exactly like Pokey ) and Stephen Hawking ( Pokey with a pointed wizard's hat ).

Many prominent physicists, including Stephen Hawking, have labored for many years in the attempt to discover a theory underlying everything.

While Stephen Hawking was initially a believer in the Theory of Everything, after considering Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, he has concluded that one is not obtainable, and has stated so publicly in his lecture " Gödel and the End of Physics " ( 2002 ).

* The PFY ( Pimply-Faced Youth ) ( BOFH's assistant, 1996 —), actual name of Steven or Stephen.

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

In the PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles ( 1976 ), he was portrayed by David Birney, William Daniels, Marcel Trenchard, Stephen Austin, Steven Grover and Mark Winkworth.

Nature in 2009 featured two editorials on the ethics of research in race and intelligence by Steven Rose ( against ) and Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams ( for ).

Steven Smale a. k. a. Steve Smale, Stephen Smale ( born July 15, 1930 ) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan.

Similarly, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith changed his name from the original Stephen Victor Tallarico " for more promotional appeal ".

In the best-seller Freakonomics, economist Steven D. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner both confirm and cast doubt on the notion that the broken windows theory was responsible for New York's drop in crime, arguing " the reality that the pool of potential criminals had dramatically shrunk ", an alternative that Levitt had attributed in the Quarterly Journal of Economics to the legalization of abortion with Roe v. Wade, a decrease in the number of delinquents in the population-at-large one generation later.

Fire Down Below is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá, starring Steven Seagal as an EPA agent who investigates a Kentucky mine and helps locals stand up for their rights ; co-starring Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton, and Stephen Lang, the film also includes cameos by country music performers Randy Travis, Mark Collie, Ed Bruce, Marty Stuart, and Travis Tritt, and country-rocker and The Band member Levon Helm.

Carlton players during pre-game warmupCarlton's overall position began to improve in 2007, when businessman Richard Pratt, Steven Icke and Collingwood's Greg Swann came to the club as president, general manager of football operations, and CEO respectively ; although Pratt's presidency lasted only sixteen months, after which he was replaced by Stephen Kernahan, the new personnel stabilised the club's off-field position.

The Village Administrator is Steven Pyles, the Clerk is Karen Webb and the Village Solicitor is Stephen Bond.

In 1991, Steven C. Smith wrote a Herrmann biography titled A Heart at Fire's Center, a quotation from a favorite Stephen Spender poem of Herrmann's.

* Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, directed by Steven Pimlott ( British premiere ) ( 1990 )

The supporting cast again included David Alan Grier and also included Sam McMurray, Steven Markle, Stephen D. Newman, John Pielmeier, Geoffrey Pierson, Gary Tacon, and Jerry Zaks.

He includes the research of — among others — Professor Stephen Camarata, Ph. D., of Vanderbilt University and Professor Steven Pinker, Ph. D., of Harvard University in this overview of a poorly understood developmental trait.

Stephen or Steven () is a masculine first name, derived from the Greek name Στέφανος ( Stephanos ) meaning " crown, garland ", in turn from the Greek word " στέφανος ", meaning " wreath, crown, honour, reward ", literally " that which surrounds or encompasses ".

Before the 20th century, the " Steven " spelling was heavily outweighed by " Stephen ", never reaching above 391st.

In England and Wales, neither " Stephen " nor " Steven " was among the top 100 names for newborn boys in 2003 – 2007.

In Scotland, " Steven " and " Stephen " were the 8th and 10th most popular names for newborn boys in 1975, but were not in the top ten in 1900, 1950 or 2000.

" Stephen " was 68th in 1900, and 46th in 1950, while " Steven " was not in the top 100 either year.

Neither " Stephen " nor " Steven " was among top 25 most popular baby boys ' names in Ireland in 2006 or 2007.

In September 1994, however, he worked with Stephen R. Bissette on the cover to Bissette's Tyrant # 1, and also colored Oni Press ' August 1998-published Free Speeches # 1, featuring the artwork of Art Adams, Mike Allred, Steven Hughes, Jim Mahfood and Kevin McCarthy to words by Sim, Neil Gaiman, Nadine Strossen and Frank Miller.

Broadview Capital Partners invested $ 25 million into Red Herring in 2000, with Steven Brooks and Stephen Bachman joining the board.

Over the years, the Review has featured reviews and articles by such writers and thinkers as Timothy Garton Ash, Margaret Atwood, Russell Baker, Saul Bellow, Isaiah Berlin, Harold Bloom, Joseph Brodsky, Noam Chomsky, J. M. Coetzee, Frederick Crews, Ronald Dworkin, John Kenneth Galbraith, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Jay Gould, Murray Kempton, Richard Lewontin, Alison Lurie, Peter Medawar, Daniel Mendelsohn, Vladimir Nabokov, V. S. Naipaul, Peter G. Peterson, Nathaniel Rich, John Searle, Zadie Smith, I. F. Stone, Desmond Tutu, John Updike, Derek Walcott, Steven Weinberg, Garry Wills and Tony Judt.

Past speakers include Stephen Jay Gould, Jared Diamond, Donald Johanson, Julia Sweeney, Richard Dawkins, Philip Zimbardo, Steven Pinker, Carol Tavris, David Baltimore, Lisa Randall, Daniel Dennett, Tim Flannery, Lawrence Krauss, Michio Kaku, Susan Blackmore, Christof Koch, Alison Gopnik, Ursula Goodenough, Edward Tufte, Bjorn Lomborg, Sam Harris, Jeff Schweitzer and many others.

* Stephen Weinberg ( 1992 ), Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature, Pantheon Books.

In The Science of Stephen King, authors Gresh and Weinberg argue that this is " vaguely possible ", but characterize it as " generally the stuff of comic books ", such as Marvel Comics ' Human Torch and Pyro.

Jonathan Weinberg, Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich conducted cross-cultural empirical studies in which participants were given examples of Gettier cases like the following:

Wynn was born Stephen Alan Weinberg in New Haven, Connecticut.

Basic's list of authors includes Christopher Andrew, Anthony Appiah, Isaac Asimov, Robert Axelrod, Susan R. Barry, Daniel Bell, John Bradshaw, Allan Brandt, Richard Brookhiser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, William F. Buckley, Stephen Carter, Iris Chang, George Chauncey, Stephanie Coontz, Dinesh D ’ Souza, Devra Davis, Richard Dawkins, Hernando de Soto, Jared Diamond, Michael Eric Dyson, Thomas B. Edsall, Richard Evans, Graham Farmelo, Niall Ferguson, Richard Feynman, Richard Florida, Robin Lane Fox, Sigmund Freud, Howard Gardner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Clifford Geertz, George Gilder, Barry Glassner, Robert Harms, Judith L. Herman, Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Hofstadter, Samuel P. Huntington, Jacqueline Jones, June Jordan, Leszek Kołakowski, Lawrence Krauss, Irving Kristol, George Lakoff, Edward Larson, Christopher Lasch, Mary Lefkowitz, Lawrence Lessig, Claude Levi-Strauss, Bernard Lewis, Robert Jay Lifton, Jeff Madrick, Nelson Mandela, Benoit Mandelbrot, Ernst Mayr, Walter A. McDougall, John McWhorter, Dana Milbank, Alice Miller, Walter Mosley, Charles Murray, Richard John Neuhaus, Donald Norman, Robert Nozick, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., James T. Patterson, Orlando Patterson, Jean Piaget, Steven Pinker, Karl Popper, Samantha Power, Diane Ravitch, Eugene Rogan, Juliet Schor, Brent Scowcroft, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Lee Smolin, Timothy Snyder, Thomas Sowell, Ian Stewart, Cass Sunstein, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Lester Thurow, Sherry Turkle, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Michael Walzer, Elizabeth Warren, George Weigel, Steven Weinberg, Cornel West, Frank Wilczek, A. N.

Stephen Jay Gould gave a harsh review in Scientific American, and the controversy caught the attention of Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg.

Following the work of Richard Nisbett, which showed that there were differences in a wide range of cognitive tasks between Westerners and East Asians, Jonathan Weinberg, Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich ( 2001 ) compared epistemic intuitions of Western college students and East Asian college students.