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" I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away. "

Stephen Hawking

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" The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it. "

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" As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.' "

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" 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. "

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" Nothing cannot exist forever. "

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" 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? "

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" It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. "

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" 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. "

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

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" No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. "

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