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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. "

Stephen Hawking

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" I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. "

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" In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind. "

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

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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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" Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" You can't regulate every lab in the world. "

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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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" I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so. "

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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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" Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. "

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" The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph. "

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

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" As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control. "

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" Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits. "

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" Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. "

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" I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective. "

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

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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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