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" Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. "
Stephen Hawking
Each
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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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Day
" I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations. "
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" The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it. "
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Pizza
" People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. "
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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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Evolution
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" Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time. "
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1920s
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" While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women. "
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People
Women
" I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality. "
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Wonderful
Always
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" The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy. "
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Intelligent
Galaxy
Human
" As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone. "
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Inspire
Science
Step
" 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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Decisions
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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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City
Fish
" I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. "
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Power
Global Warming
Pollution
" There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. "
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Infinity
Sense
Light
" 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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Space
Travel
Time
" Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. "
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September
Human
Like
" Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion. "
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Science
Used
Questions
" 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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Know
Number
Control
" Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. "
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Physics
Science
Kept
" For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin. "
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Disaster
Early
Work
" I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. "
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Human
Future
Think
" I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees. "
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Money
Book
Writing
" Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. "
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Forever
Universe
Will
" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "
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Understand
Time
History
" When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have. "
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Zero
Expectations
Everything
" 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. "
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Treatment
Without
Here
" My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically. "
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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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Perspective
" I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. "
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Intelligence
Believe
" We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. "
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Early
Product
Quantum