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" There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. "

Stephen Hawking

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" I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. "

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" I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics. "

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" Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus. "

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" I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution. "

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

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" I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition. "

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" There is no unique picture of reality. "

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" No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. "

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" God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God. "

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

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

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