Stephen Hawking Quotes
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One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.
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It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.
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One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist
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The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.
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Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?
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There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.
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I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.
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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
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More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.
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The universe doesn't allow perfection.
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Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.
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It matters that you don't just give up.
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Scientists tend to risk theories they admire
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To boldly go where no one has gone before
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Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.
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The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.
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My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
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In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.
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If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night.
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We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.
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In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.
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One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. One could imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!
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Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an ass.
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What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist.
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Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.
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Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers.
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Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.
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I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers
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Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.
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Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
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