12 Quotes by Antony Hewish

I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life emerged due to random physical processes in an environment which simply happened to have the right properties. As a Christian I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.

My first research was concerned with propagation of radiation through inhomogeneous transparent media and this has remained a lifelong interest.

I was educated at King’s College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.