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Hawking (also known as Hawking: Brief History of Mine) is a 2013 biographical documentary film about Stephen Hawking directed by Stephen Finnigan and features Hawking himself, depicting his love life, his struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and his later recognition as a world-famous scientist.
“I regard [the many worlds interpretation] as self-evidently correct. [T.F.: Yet some don't find it evident to themselves.] Yeah, well, there are some people who spend an awful lot of time talking about the interpretation of quantum mechanics. My attitude — I would paraphrase Goering—is that when I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my gun.”
“All my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them.”
“I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.”
“We should seek the greatest value of our action.”
“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?”
“If a superior alien civilisation sent us a text message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here, we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not, but this is more or less what has happened with AI.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.