Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actionsso the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from the evidence? Might it not equally well determine that we draw the wrong conclusion? Or no conclusion at all?
About This Quote
About Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking was a 20th-century English theoretical physicist. Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world