Stephen Hawking Quotes:
Ocupation: Physicist
Life: b. January 8, 1942
Birthday: January 8
Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points.
source: Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam
topic: Moving, Two, Space, Straight Path
