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" If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not. "

Stephen Hawking

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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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" 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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" Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four. "

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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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" People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. "

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" In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians. "

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" I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. "

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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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" Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. "

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" Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low. "

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" I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible. "

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" However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. "

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" Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. "

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

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

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" There is no unique picture of reality. "

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" Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field. "

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" We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain. "

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" Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more. "

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" The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy. "

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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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" Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world. "

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

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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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