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

Stephen Hawking

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

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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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" We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. "

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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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" 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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" If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form. "

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" We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don't know the probability that a planet develops life. "

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" I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be. "

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" I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe. "

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" There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions. "

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" Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. "

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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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" God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator. "

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" Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. "

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" There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. "

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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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