Stephen Hawking (January 8, 1942 - March 14, 2018) on War and Civilization(published by RevoltSource) |
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English Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Author, Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge
: An English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who, at the time of his death, 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 the University of Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #12 on Political Struggle Quotes >> War and Civilization
“...our aggressive instincts seem to be encoded in our DNA. DNA changes by biological evolution only on a time scale of millions of years, but our powers of destruction are increasing on a time scale for the evolution of information, which is now only twenty or thirty years.”
Source: "Black Holes and Baby Universes: And Other Essays," by Stephen Hawking, Bantam Books, New York, 1993. Chapter 12: Is Everything Determined?, Page 137.
"Black Holes and Baby Universes: And Other Essays," by Stephen Hawking, Bantam Books, New York, 1993.
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