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In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars.

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.

I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.

Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.

My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.