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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. "

Stephen Hawking

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" 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. "

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" One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. "

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" Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits. "

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

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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 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. "

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" Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. "

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" My three children have brought me great joy. "

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" Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? "

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" I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. "

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" There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains. "

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" Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus. "

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" I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. "

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" It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years. "

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" Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible. "

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" Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe. "

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" We live in a bewildering world. "

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" If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time. "

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" I believe things cannot make themselves impossible. "

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" There is no unique picture of reality. "

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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. "

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