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" I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera. "
Stephen Hawking
Opera
Classical
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" If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. "
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" Theology is unnecessary. "
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" Exploration by real people inspires us. "
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" There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. "
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" The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? "
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" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "
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" When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won't have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore. "
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" Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity. "
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" Perhaps one day I will go into space. "
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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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" Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics. "
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" I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves. "
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" Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. "
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Life
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" It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal. "
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Day
" Some scientists think it may be possible to capture a wormhole and enlarge it many trillions of times to make it big enough for a human or even a spaceship to enter. "
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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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" I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system. "
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" Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. "
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" We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. "
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Product
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" We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain. "
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Connected
" I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. "
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" Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion. "
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" Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. "
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" My three children have brought me great joy. "
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" The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it. "
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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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" With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. "
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" Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years. "
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" I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going. "
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