The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in G…

- Antony Hewish

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

- Antony Hewish

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

- Antony Hewish

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting …

- Antony Hewish

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds …

- Antony Hewish

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

- Antony Hewish

My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers…

- 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 ph…

- Antony Hewish

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 …

- Antony Hewish