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" As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone. "

Stephen Hawking

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" Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk. "

" If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. "

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" We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain. "

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" Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four. "

" I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America. "

" I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. "

" The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. "

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" If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed. "

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" Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. "

" No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. "