General relativity has changed our understanding of space and time. ...The spacetime of general relativity ...is likely to be just a classical approx… - Carlo Rovelli

[I]n a fundamental description of nature we must "forget time"... this can be done in the classical and in the quantum theory.

Hawking was one of the good physicists of his generation, not the universal genius the popular press has depicted. It is a pity, because this confusion fogs the memory of a remarkable man.

A handful of types of elementary particles, which vibrate and fluctuate constantly between existence and non-existence and swarm in space even when it seems that there is nothing there, combine together to infinity like the letters of a cosmic alphabet to tell the immense history of galaxies, of the innumerable stars, of sunlight, of mountains, woods and fields of grain, of the smiling faces of the young at parties, and of the night sky studded with stars.