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" I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived. "

Stephen Hawking

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" The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky. "

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" Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time. "

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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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" God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. "

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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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" We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit. "

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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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" Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field. "

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" 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. "

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" I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people. "

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" It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize. "

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" Nothing cannot exist forever. "

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" Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. "

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" Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others. "

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" Women. They are a complete mystery. "

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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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" 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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" According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing. "

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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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" I believe things cannot make themselves impossible. "

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" There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. "

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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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" I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality. "

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" Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. "

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" The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. "

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

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" The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe. "

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