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" I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. "
Stephen Hawking
Power
Global Warming
Pollution
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" The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. "
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" As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone. "
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" One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance. "
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" Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. "
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" People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. "
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" Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. "
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" God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God. "
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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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" Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest. "
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" Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. "
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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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" Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind. "
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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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" The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. "
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" What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people. "
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" A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality? "
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" I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time. "
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" I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found. "
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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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" Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. "
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" To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. "
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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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" There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. "
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" I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws. "
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" 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. "
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" I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing. "
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" I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. "
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" The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it. "
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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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