Stephen Hawking credited as playing...
Stephen Hawking
- Prof. Stephen Hawking: I raise 50.
- Isaac Newton: Blast! I fold.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: I fold as well.
- Albert Einstein: The uncertainty principle will not help you now, Stephen. Hmm? All the quantum fluctuations in the universe will not change the cards in your hand. I call. You are bluffing and you will lose!
- Prof. Stephen Hawking: Wrong again, Albert.
- [presents a hand of four 7s]
- Albert Einstein: Vell.
- Isaac Newton: I invented physics. The day that apple fell on my head was the most momentous day in the history of science.
- Prof. Stephen Hawking: Not the apple story again.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: That story is generally considered to be apocryphal.
- Isaac Newton: [insulted] What? How dare you!
- [first lines]
- Prof. Stephen Hawking: ...But then I said, "In that frame of reference, the perihelion of Mercury would have precessed in the opposite direction."
- Albert Einstein: [laughs] That is a great story.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Quite amusing, Dr. Hawking.
- [Isaac Newton doesn't seem to get the joke]
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: You see, Sir Isaac, the joke depends on an understanding of the relativistic curvature of space-time. If two non-inertial reference frames are in relative motion...
- Isaac Newton: Do not patronise me, sir. I invented physics.