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" If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens. "
Stephen Hawking
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" I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. "
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" As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.' "
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" There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. "
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" Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. "
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" If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist. "
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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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" I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible. "
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" If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not. "
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" Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. "
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" We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence. "
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" We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it. "
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" The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. "
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" However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. "
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" We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don't know the probability that a planet develops life. "
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" What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people. "
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" Some scientists think it may be possible to capture a wormhole and enlarge it many trillions of times to make it big enough for a human or even a spaceship to enter. "
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" It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal. "
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" God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God. "
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" Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. "
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" Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time. "
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" I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. "
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" Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years. "
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" I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe. "
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" Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since. "
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