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" Exploration by real people inspires us. "

Stephen Hawking

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

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" Many people find the universe confusing - it's not. "

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" I'm an atheist. "

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" Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of. "

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" My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics. "

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" I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe. "

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" My wife and I love each other very much. "

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" Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. "

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" My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected. "

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" I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer. "

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

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" I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective. "

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" Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. "

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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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" If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form. "

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

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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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" I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. "

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" People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. "

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" Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. "

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