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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. "

Stephen Hawking

Place

Believe

Perspective

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Children

" Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind. "

" 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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" Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions. "

" 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. "

" In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind. "

" So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator? "

" We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. "

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Special

Space

" I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice - if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair. "

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

" There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. "

" 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 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. "

" Perhaps one day I will go into space. "

Stephen Hawking

Perhaps

One Day

" I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. "

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

" 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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Human

Physical

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

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

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" Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. "