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" The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it. "
Stephen Hawking
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" Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time. "
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" Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion. "
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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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" 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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" Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more. "
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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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" Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. "
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