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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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" 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. "

" It is extremely important to me to write for children. "

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" I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system. "

" When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have. "

" Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time. "

" What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people. "

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" I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going. "

" The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy. "

" 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. "

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

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

" My work and my family are very important to me. "

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

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" Women. They are a complete mystery. "

" Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. "

" If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed. "

" 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. "

" So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator? "

" I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America. "

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

" 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. "

" I have wondered about time all my life. "

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

" People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. "

" 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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" Computers double their performance every month. "

" Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more. "

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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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" However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. "