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" I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be. "
Stephen Hawking
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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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" The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years. "
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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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" Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution. "
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" The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. "
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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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