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" One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance. "

Stephen Hawking

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" There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world. "

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" It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark. "

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

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" Among physicists, I'm respected I hope. "

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" To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. "

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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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" Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. "

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" Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway. "

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" No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. "

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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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" It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. "

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

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" Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. "

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

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" A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel. "

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

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" M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find. "

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" The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world. "

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

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" Perhaps one day I will go into space. "

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" To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. "

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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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" Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.' "

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" I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees. "

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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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" Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. "

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