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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. "

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" I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees. "

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" Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. "

" The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky. "

" My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. "

" The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line. "

" While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women. "

" Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. "

" People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. "

" There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world. "

" I believe things cannot make themselves impossible. "

" Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics. "

" 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. "

" If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not. "

" Nothing cannot exist forever. "

" I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. "

" The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph. "

" Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since. "

" We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. "

" We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house. "

" Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. "

" However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. "

" Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. "

" Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. "

" We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit. "

" I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories. "

" To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. "

" I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. "

" Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor. "

" Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world. "

" What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people. "

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