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We Won't Know For A Few Years.

I Do Not Believe In A Personal God.

In Effect, We Have Redefined The Task Of Science To Be The Discovery Of Laws That Will Enable Us To Predict Events Up To The Limits Set By The Uncertainty Principle.

Uncertainty Principle

We Could Call Order By The Name Of God, But It Would Be An Impersonal God. There's Not Much Personal About The Laws Of Physics.

I'm Here To Chew Gum And Kick Some Ass, And I'm All Out Of Gum.

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?

Love The Neighbor. But Don't Get Caught.

I'm Not Afraid Of Death, But I'm In No Hurry To Die. I Have So Much I Want To Do First.

Eternity Is A Long Time, Especially Towards The End.

There Is A Very Real Danger That We Will Kill Everything On This Planet Now That We Have The Technological Power To Do So.

Science Can Lift People Out Of Poverty And Cure Disease. That, In Turn, Will Reduce Civil Unrest.

My First Popular Book, 'a Brief History Of Time,' Aroused A Great Deal Of Interest, But Many Found It Difficult To Understand.

I Have Sold More Books On Physics Than Madonna Has On Sex.

I Want My Books Sold On Airport Bookstalls.

Issuing An Insurance Policy Against Abduction By Aliens Seems A Pretty Safe Bet.

One Can't Predict The Weather More Than A Few Days In Advance.

Scientists Have Become The Bearers Of The Torch Of Discovery In Our Quest For Knowledge.

If I Knew What Was Going To Happen In Ten Years I Would Do It Now. I Just Follow My Nose.

Money Is Not Everything. There's Master Card & Visa.

What I Meant By 'we Would Know The Mind Of God' Is, We Would Know Everything That God Would Know, If There Were A God. Which There Isn't. I'm An Atheist.

We Are All Now Connected By The Internet, Like Neurons In A Giant Brain.

I Would Like Nuclear Fusion To Become A Practical Power Source. It Would Provide An Inexhaustible Supply Of Energy, Without Pollution Or Global Warming.

So Great A Contribution To Physics Was Two New Sciences That Scholars Have Long Maintained That The Book Anticipated Isaac Newton's Laws Of Motion.

The Human Race Does Not Have A Very Good Record Of Intelligent Behavior.

It Is Not Clear That Intelligence Has Any Long-term Survival Value.

There Is No Prescribed Route To Follow To Arrive At A New Idea. You Have To Make The Intuitive Leap. But The Difference Is That Once You've Made The Intuitive Leap You Have To Justify It By Filling In The Intermediate Steps. N My Case, It Often Happens That I Have An Idea, But Then I Try To Fill In The Intermediate Steps And Find That They Don't Work, So I Have To Give It Up.

Keeping An Active Mind Has Been Vital To My Survival, As Has Been Maintaining A Sense Of Humor.

Nuclear Weapons Need Large Facilities, But Genetic Engineering Can Be Done In A Small Lab. You Can't Regulate Every Lab In The World. The Danger Is That Either By Accident Or Design, We Create A Virus That Destroys Us.

When I Was First Diagnosed With Als, I Was Given Two Years To Live. Now 45 Years Later, I Am Doing Pretty Well.

I Don't Think The Human Race Will Survive The Next Thousand Years, Unless We Spread Into Space.

I Am Damned If I'm Going To Die Before I Have Unraveled More Of The Universe

If I Have Questions About The Universe On My Mind When I Go To Bed, I Can't Turn Off. I Dream Equations All Night.

It's Clearly Possible For A Something To Acquire Higher Intelligence Than Its Ancestors: We Evolved To Be Smarter Than Our Ape-like Ancestors, And Einstein Was Smarter Than His Parents.

Simplicity Is A Matter Of Taste

We Don't Let Animals Suffer, So Why Humans?

Any Physical Theory Is Always Provisional, In The Sense That It Is Only A Hypothesis: You Can Never Prove It.

The Increase Of Disorder Or Entropy With Time Is One Example Of What Is Called An Arrow Of Time, Something That Distinguishes The Past From The Future, Giving A Direction To Time.

The Development Of Full Artificial Intelligence Could Spell The End Of The Human Race.

Real Science Can Be Far Stranger Than Science Fiction And Much More Satisfying.

There Could Be Whole Antiworlds And Antipeople Made Out Of Antiparticles. However, If You Ever Meet Your Antiself, Don't Shake Hands! You Would Both Vanish In A Great Flash Of Light.

Teamwork...means Never Having To Take All The Blame Yourself.

One Is Always A Long Way From Solving A Problem Until One Actually Has The Answer.

We Live In The Most Probable Of All Possible Worlds.

Life On Earth Is At The Ever-increasing Risk Of Being Wiped Out By A Disaster, Such As Sudden Global Warming, Nuclear War, A Genetically Engineered Virus Or Other Dangers. I Think The Human Race Has No Future If It Doesn't Go Into Space. I Therefore Want To Encourage Public Interest In Space.

We Are All Different. There Is No Such Thing As A Standard Or Run-of-the-mill Human Being, But We Share The Same Human Spirit.

If I Had To Choose A Superhero To Be, I Would Pick Superman. He's Everything That I'm Not.

Government Works Best Under The Glare Of Public Scrutiny. Absent Such Scrutiny, Abuses Occur.

It Surprises Me How Disinterested We Are Today About Things Like Physics, Space, The Universe And Philosophy Of Our Existence, Our Purpose, Our Final Destination. Its A Crazy World Out There. Be Curious.

God Abhors A Naked Singularity.

Is God Omnipotent ? If He Is, Can He Create A Rock So Heavy He Can't Lift It ?

What Is Important Is That We Have The Ability To Create.

To Confine Our Attention To Terrestrial Matters Would Be To Limit The Human Spirit.

As We Shall See, The Concept Of Time Has No Meaning Before The Beginning Of The Universe. This Was First Pointed Out By St. Augustine. When Asked: What Did God Do Before He Created The Universe? Augustine Didn't Reply: He Was Preparing Hell For People Who Asked Such Questions. Instead, He Said That Time Was A Property Of The Universe That God Created, And That Time Did Not Exist Before The Beginning Of The Universe.

One Could Say: "the Boundary Condition Of The Universe Is That It Has No Boundary." The Universe Would Be Completely Self-contained And Not Affected By Anything Outside Itself. It Would Neither Be Created Nor Destroyed. It Would Just Be.

I'm A Child Myself, In The Sense That I'm Still Looking. Children Are Fascinated By Black Holes And Ask Me Questions. I Find They Soon Get The Idea If It Is Explained In Nontechnical Language.

Scientific Discovery May Not Be Better Than Sex, But The Satisfaction Lasts Longer.

It Would Be Very Difficult To Explain Why The Universe Should Have Begun In Just This Way, Except As The Act Of A God Who Intended To Create Beings Like Us.

There Is A Fundamental Difference Between Religion, Which Is Based On Authority, [and] Science, Which Is Based On Observation And Reason. Science Will Win Because It Works.

Never Put Off The Work Till Tomorrow What You Can Put Off Today.

Unless Mankind Redesigns Itself By Changing Our Dna Through Altering Our Genetic Makeup, Computer-genera Ted Robots Will Take Over Our World.

What Was God Doing Before The Divine Creation? Was He Preparing Hell For People Who Asked Such Questions?

There Should Be No Boundaries To Human Endeavor. However Bad Life May Seem, There Is Always Hope.

Not To Leave Planet Earth Would Be Like Castaways On A Desert Island Not Trying To Escape...sending Humans To Other Planets ... Will Shape The Future Of The Human Race In Ways We Don't Yet Understand, And May Determine Whether We Have Any Future At All.

Religion Believes In Miracles, But These Aren't Compatible With Science.

Believe In Miracles

Now, Radical Forward Thinking Is Offering Hope For The Future: Replacement Body Parts To Order. A Team Of Scientists In California Believe That If You Can Design Them On A Computer, You Should Be Able To Print Them Out.

I Have Sold More Books On Physics Than Madonna Has On Sex. [hawking Adopted This Statement From A Remark Made To Him By His Former Post-doc, Nathan Myhrvold.]

One Does Not Have To Appeal To God To Set The Initial Conditions For The Creation Of The Universe, But If One Does He Would Have To Act Through The Laws Of Physics.

It Is My View That The Simplest Explanation Is There Is No God. No One Created The Universe And No One Directs Our Fate. This Leads Me To A Profound Realization. There Is Probably No Heaven, And No Afterlife Either. We Have This One Life To Appreciate The Grand Design Of The Universe, And For That, I Am Extremely Grateful.

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.

It Is Reasonable To Ask Who Or What Created The Universe, But If The Answer Is God, Then The Question Has Merely Been Deflected To That Of Who Created God.

If What We Regard As Real Depends On Our Theory, How Can We Make Reality The Basis Of Our Philosophy? But We Cannot Distinguish What Is Real About The Universe Without A Theory. It Makes No Sense To Ask If It Corresponds To Reality, Because We Do Not Know What Reality Is Independent Of A Theory.

When Something Is Made Idiot Proof, They Will Just Make Better Idiots.

If Any One Of About 40 Physical Qualities Had More Than Slightly Different Values, Life As We Know It Could Not Exist.

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves.

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I Have Lived With The Prospect Of An Early Death For The Last 49 Years. I'm Not Afraid Of Death, But I'm In No Hurry To Die. I Have So Much I Want To Do First. I Regard The Brain As A Computer Which Will Stop Working When Its Components Fail. There Is No Heaven Or Afterlife For Broken Down Computers; That Is A Fairy Story For People Afraid Of The Dark.

Perhaps We Could Write Code To Optimize Code, Then Run That Code Through The Code Optimizer?

I Think My Dad [ Stephen Hawking] Would Have Been Pleased If I Had Turned Out A Scientist Because He Truly Believes That Is The Most Interesting Career Open To Anyone. But He Also Believes That You Have To Follow Your Own Path In Life And So He Certainly Wasn't Going To Push Me Toward Theoretical Physics When It Didn't Look Like I Was Going In That Direction Naturally.

The Universe Does Not Behave According To Our Pre-conceived Ideas. It Continues To Surprise Us.

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.

A Theory Is A Good Theory If It Satisfies Two Requirements: It Must Accurately Describe A Large Class Of Observations On The Basis Of A Model That Contains Only A Few Arbitrary Elements, And It Must Make Definite Predictions About The Results Of Future Observations.

Exploration By Real People Inspires Us.

The Concern Here Is That Financial Services Become A Kind Of Tech-led Wild West.

[question: What Do You Think Was The Most Important Physics Idea To Emerge This Year?] We Won't Know For A Few Years.

Before We Understand Science, It Is Natural To Believe That God Created The Universe. But Now Science Offers A More Convincing Explanation.

Humanities Deepest Desire For Knowledge Is Justification Enough For Continuing Our Quest. And Our Goal Is Nothing Less Than A Complete Description Of The Universe We Live In.

Every Man Should Marry. After All, Happiness Is Not The Only Thing In Life.

There Is No Prescribed Route To Follow To Arrive At A New Idea. You Have To Make The Intuitive Leap.

The Human Failing I Would Most Like To Correct Is Aggression.

It Is Impossible To Imagine A Four-dimensional Space. I Personally Find It Hard Enough To Visualize A Three-dimensional Space!

Over A Very Small Number Of Rolls Of The Dice, The Uncertainty Principle Is Very Important.

Uncertainty Principle

A Lot Of Prizes Have Been Awarded For Showing The Universe Is Not As Simple As We Might Have Thought.

Don't Be Disabled In Spirit As Well As Physically.

We Think We Have Solved The Mystery Of Creation. Maybe We Should Patent The Universe And Charge Everyone Royalties For Their Existence.

I Put A Lot Of Effort Into Writing 'a Briefer History' At A Time When I Was Critically Ill With Pneumonia Because I Think That It's Important For Scientists To Explain Their Work, Particularly In Cosmology. This Now Answers Many Questions Once Asked Of Religion.

Our Population And Our Use Of The Finite Resources Of Planet Earth Are Growing Exponentially, Along With Our Technical Ability To Change The Environment For Good Or Ill. But Our Genetic Code Still Carries The Selfish And Aggressive Instincts That Were Of Survival Advantage In The Past. It Will Be Difficult Enough To Avoid Disaster In The Next Hundred Years, Let Alone The Next Thousand Or Million. Our Only Chance Of Long Term Survival, Is Not To Remain Inward Looking On Planet Earth, But To Spread Out Into Space.

We Explore Because We Are Human And We Want To Know. I Hope That Pluto Will Help Us On That Journey.

I Don't Want To Write An Autobiography Because I Would Become Public Property With No Privacy Left.

I Believe In Universal Health Care. And I Am Not Afraid To Say So.

Obviously, Because Of My Disability, I Need Assistance. But I Have Always Tried To Overcome The Limitations Of My Condition And Lead As Full A Life As Possible. I Have Traveled The World, From The Antarctic To Zero Gravity.

Science Can Explain The Universe Without The Need For A Creator.

The Universe In A Nutshell

One Can't Prove That God Doesn't Exist. But Science Makes God Unnecessary. The Laws Of Physics Can Explain The Universe Without The Need For A Creator.

Our Population And Our Use Of The Finite Resources Of Planet Earth Are Growing Exponentially, Along With Our Technical Ability To Change The Environment For Good Or Ill.

Among Physicists, I'm Respected I Hope.

Do You Ever Wonder How Much Deeper The Ocean Would Be Without Sponges?

The Human Capacity For Guilt Is Such That People Can Always Find Ways To Blame Themselves

Maybe I Don't Have The Most Common Kind Of Motor Neuron Disease, Which Usually Kills In Two Or Three Years.

"sooner Or Later Disasters Such As An Asteroid Collision Or A Nuclear War Could Wipe Us All Out, But Once We Spread Out Into Space And Establish Independent Colonies, Our Future Should Be Safe."

Everything That Civilisation Has To Offer Is A Product Of Human Intelligence; We Cannot Predict What We Might Achieve When This Intelligence Is Magnified By The Tools That Ai May Provide, But The Eradication Of War, Disease, And Poverty Would Be High On Anyone's List. Success In Creating Ai Would Be The Biggest Event In Human History. Unfortunately, It Might Also Be The Last.

If We Ever Do Find A Complete Theory Of The Universe, It Would Be A Great Triumph Of Human Reason But It Wouldn't Leave Much For Us To Do. We Need An Intellectual Challenge.

One Can See From Space How The Human Race Has Changed The Earth. Nearly All Of The Available Land Has Been Cleared Of Forest And Is Now Used For Agriculture Or Urban Development. The Polar Icecaps Are Shrinking And The Desert Areas Are Increasing. At Night, The Earth Is No Longer Dark, But Large Areas Are Lit Up. All Of This Is Evidence That Human Exploitation Of The Planet Is Reaching A Critical Limit. But Human Demands And Expectations Are Ever-increasing. We Cannot Continue To Pollute The Atmosphere, Poison The Ocean And Exhaust The Land. There Isn't Any More Available.

If The Total Energy Of The Universe Must Always Remain Zero, And It Costs Energy To Create A Body, How Can A Whole Universe Be Created From Nothing?

One, Remember To Look Up At The Stars And Not Down At Your Feet. Two, Never Give Up Work. Work Gives You Meaning And Purpose And Life Is Empty Without It. Three, If You Are Lucky Enough To Find Love, Remember It Is There And Don't Throw It Away.

It Is Very Important For Young People Keep Their Sense Of Wonder And Keep Asking Why.

The "powers That Be" Are Not Smart Enough To Engineer Armageddon, But They May Yet Be Stupid Enough. If Governments Are Involved In Covering Up The Knowledge Of Aliens, Then They Are Doing A Much Better Job Of It Than They Seem To Do At Anything Else.

Galileo, Perhaps More Than Any Other Single Person, Was Responsible For The Birth Of Modern Science.

The World Has Changed Far More In The Past 100 Years Than In Any Other Century In History. The Reason Is Not Political Or Economic But Technological-technologies That Flowed Directly From Advances In Basic Science. Clearly, No Scientist Better Represents Those Advances Than Albert Einstein: Time's Person Of The Century.

Observations Indicate That The Universe Is Expanding At An Ever Increasing Rate. It Will Expand Forever, Getting Emptier And Darker.

It's The Gravity That Shapes The Large Scale Structure Of The Universe, Even Though It Is The Weakest Of Four Categories Of Forces

What You Have Told Us Is Rubbish. The World Is Really A Flat Plate Supported On The Back Of A Giant Tortoise.

One Can Imagine That God Created The Universe At Literally Any Time In The Past. On The Other Hand, If The Universe Is Expanding, There May Be Physical Reasons Why There Had To Be A Beginning. One Could Imagine That God Created The Universe At The Instant Of The Big Bang, Or Even Afterwards In Just Such A Way As To Make It Look As Though There Had Been A Big Bang, But It Would Be Meaningless To Suppose That It Was Created Before The Big Bang. An Expanding Universe Does Not Preclude A Creator, But It Does Place Limits On When He Might Have Carried Out His Job!

Expanding Universe

What I Have Learned From Life Is To Make The Most Of What You Have Got.

In The Last 200 Years The Population Of Our Planet Has Grown Exponentially, At A Rate Of 1.9% Per Year. If It Continued At This Rate, With The Population Doubling Every 40 Years, By 2600 We Would All Be Standing Literally Shoulder To Shoulder.

I Would Rather Be Right Than Rigorous.

Chaos, When Left Alone, Tends To Multiply.

Some People Would Claim That Things Like Love, Joy And Beauty Belong To A Different Category From Science And Can't Be Described In Scientific Terms, But I Think They Can Now Be Explained By The Theory Of Evolution.

Theory Of Evolution

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. It Was A Natural Next Step To Want To Know How The Universe Works.

It Is All Right To Make Mistakes; Nothing Is Perfect Because With Perfection, We Would Not Exist.

One Big Contribution My Father [stephen Hawking] Has Made Is To Show That Having A Disability Does Not Bar You From Leading A Full And Eventful Life.

Working With My Father [stephen Hawking ] Is A Great Thrill - He Has The Amazing Ability To Hold Enormous Amounts Of Information In His Head.

I Think The Next Century Will Be The Century Of Complexity.

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.

All Of My Life, I Have Been Fascinated By The Big Questions That Face Us, And Have Tried To Find Scientific Answers To Them. If, Like Me, You Have Looked At The Stars, And Tried To Make Sense Of What You See, You Too Have Started To Wonder What Makes The Universe Exist.

When I Hear Of Schrödinger's Cat, I Reach For My Pistol.

Succeed In Spite Of Management.

What Could Define God, [is Thinking Of God] As The Embodiment Of The Laws Of Nature. However, This Is Not What Most People Would Think Of That God. They Made A Human-like Being With Whom One Can Have A Personal Relationship. When You Look At The Vast Size Of The Universe And How Insignificant An Accidental Human Life Is In It, That Seems Most Impossible.

Someone Told Me That Each Equation I Included In My Book Would Halve The Sales. I Did Put In One Equation, Einstein's Famous Equation, E = Mc Squared. I Hope That This Will Not Scare Off Half Of My Potential Readers.

The Meaning In Life Is Not Out There But Inbetween Our Ears. In Many Ways This Makes Us The Lords Of Creation.

It Was Recently Discovered That Research Causes Cancer In Rats.

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.

When I Get To Heaven I'm Gonna Find The Guy In Charge Of The Weather And Kick His Rear.

[question: Do You Feel That Scientists Correct Themselves As Often As They Should?] More Often Than Politicians, But Not As Often As They Should.

My Goal Is Simple. It Is A Complete Understanding Of The Universe, Why It Is As It Is And Why It Exists At All.

Physics As We Know It Will Be Over In Six Months - Max Born

We Are Entering An Increasingly Dangerous Period Of Our History. But I'm An Optimist.

A Million Million Million Million (1 With Twenty-four Zeros After It) Miles, The Size Of The Observable Universe.

I May Contradict Myself, But At Least I Don't Contradict Myself.

When I Was Young, Stephen Hawking Wasn't The World's Most Famous Physicist. The Fame Didn't Arrive Until The Publication Of "a Brief History Of Time," By Which Time I Was In My Late Teens. When I Was A Child, He Was Well Known Among Physicists, But They Are A Fairly Select, Serious Bunch, Not Much Given To Celebrity Idolizing.

The Intelligent Beings In These Regions Should Therefore Not Be Surprised If They Observe That Their Locality In The Universe Satisfies The Conditions That Are Necessary For Their Existence. It Is A Bit Like A Rich Person Living In A Wealthy Neighborhood Not Seeing Any Poverty.

To Understand Recursion, One Must First Understand Recursion.

If We Do Discover A Complete Theory, It Should Be In Time Understandable In Broad Principle By Everyone. Then We Shall All, Philosophers, Scientists, And Just Ordinary People Be Able To Take Part In The Discussion Of Why We And The Universe Exist.

The Universe Is Governed By Science. But Science Tells Us That We Can't Solve The Equations, Directly In The Abstract.

Mathematical Equations

Nothing Is Better Than Reading And Gaining More And More Knowledge.

Even If There Is Only One Possible Unified Theory, It Is Just A Set Of Rules And Equations. What Is It That Breathes Fire Into The Equations And Makes A Universe For Them To Describe?

The More You Learn, The More You Know. The More You Know, The More You Forget. The More You Forget, The Less You Know. So Why Bother To Learn.

We Have Made Remarkable Progress In The Last Hundred Years, But If We Want To Continue, Our Future Is In Space.

In His Eyes Shone The Reflection Of The Most Beautiful Planet In The Universe---a Planet That Is Not Too Hot And Not Too Cold; That Has Liquid Water On The Surface And Where The Gravity Is Just Right For Human Beings And The Atmosphere Is Perfect For Them To Breathe; Where There Are Mountains And Deserts And Oceans And Islands And Forests And Trees And Birds And Plants And Animals And Insects And People---lots And Lots Of People. Where There Is Life. Some Of It, Possibly, Intelligent.

Our Only Chance Of Long-term Survival Is Not To Remain Lurking On Planet Earth, But To Spread Out Into Space.

Equations Are Just The Boring Part Of Mathematics. I Attempt To See Things In Terms Of Geometry.

Science Fiction Can Be Exciting And Very Gripping, But It Doesn't Tell Us Anything About The Universe In Which We Live.

Its A Crazy World Out There. Be Curious.

The Large-scale Homogeneity Of The Universe Makes It Very Difficult To Believe That The Structure Of The Universe Is Determined By Anything So Peripheral As Some Complicated Molecular Structure On A Minor Planet Orbiting A Very Average Star In The Outer Suburbs Of A Fairly Typical Galaxy.

I Don't Think The Human Race Will Survive The Next Thousand Years, Unless We Spread Into Space. There Are Too Many Accidents That Can Befall Life On A Single Planet. But I'm An Optimist. We Will Reach Out To The Stars.

A Zero-gravity Flight Is A First Step Toward Space Travel.

I Used To Think Information Was Destroyed In Black Hole. This Was My Biggest Blunder, Or At Least My Biggest Blunder In Science.

Jesus Loves You, But Everyone Else Thinks You're An Ass.

Without Imperfection, You Or I Would Not Exist.

It Is No Good Getting Furious If You Get Stuck. What I Do Is Keep Thinking About The Problem But Work On Something Else. Sometimes It Is Years Before I See The Way Forward. In The Case Of Information Loss And Black Holes, It Was 29 Years.

If Everything In The Universe Depends Upon Everything Else In A Fundamental Way, It Might Be Impossible To Get Close To A Full Solution By Investigating Parts Of The Problem In Isolation.

No One Undertakes Research In Physics With The Intention Of Winning A Prize. It Is The Joy Of Discovering Something No One Knew Before.

The Laws Of Science Do Not Distinguish Between The Past And The Future.

There Are Too Many Accidents That Can Befall Life On A Single Planet.

If It [the Universe] Was Expanding Fairly Slowly, The Force Of Gravity Would Cause It Eventually To Stop Expanding And Then To Start Contracting. However, If It Was Expanding At More Than A Certain Critical Rate, Gravity Would Never Be Strong Enough To Stop It, And The Universe Would Continue To Expand Forever.

In Real Time, The Universe Has A Beginning And An End At Singularities That Form A Boundary To Space-time And At Which The Laws Of Science Break Down.

I'd Say I Don't Believe In God, But I'm Afraid He Might Hear Me.

There Is No Unique Picture Of Reality.

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 This Way, Edwin Hubble Worked Out The Distances To Nine Different Galaxies. We Now Know That Our Galaxy Is Only One Of Some Hundred Thousand Million That Can Be Seen Using Modern Telescopes, Each Galaxy Itself Containing Some Hundred Thousand Million Stars.

There Is A Real Danger That Computers Will Develop Intelligence And Take Over. We Urgently Need To Develop Direct Connections To The Brain So That Computers Can Add To Human Intelligence Rather Than Be In Opposition.

We Waste Time, So You Don't Have To.

We See The Universe The Way It Is Because We Exist.

We Are Only The Temporary Custodians Of The Particles Which We Are Made Of. They Will Go On To Lead A Future Existence In The Enormous Universe That Made Them

Half The Battle Is Just Showing Up.

Sometimes I Wonder If I'm As Famous For My Wheelchair And Disabilities As I Am For My Discoveries.

For Millions Of Years, Mankind Lived Just Like The Animals. Then Something Happened Which Unleashed The Power Of Our Imagination. We Learned To Talk And We Learned To Listen.

Of Course It Is Possible That Ufo's Really Do Contain Aliens As Many People Believe, And The Government Is Hushing It Up

A Snooze Button Is A Poor Substitute For No Alarm Clock At All.

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.

Theology Is Unnecessary.

So Remember To Look Up At The Stars And Not Down At Your Feet. Try To Make Sense Of What You See And Hold On To That Childlike Wonder About What Makes The Universe Exist.

[on President Bush's Plan To Get To Mars In 10 Years] Stupid. Robots Would Do A Better Job And Be Much Cheaper Because You Don't Have To Bring Them Back.

God Not Only Plays Dice, He Throws Them In The Corner Where You Can't See Them.

At Times, I Get Very Lonely Because People Are Afraid To Talk To Me Or Don't Wait For Me To Write A Response. I'm Shy And Tongue-tied At Times. I Find It Difficult To Talk To People Who I Don't Know.

The Laws Of Science, As We Know Them At Present, Contain Many Fundamental Numbers, Like The Size Of The Electric Charge Of The Electron And The Ratio Of The Masses Of The Proton And The Electron .... The Remarkable Fact Is That The Values Of These Numbers Seem To Have Been Finely Adjusted To Make Possible The Development Of Life.

If At First You Don't Succeed, Try Management.

I'm Very Interested In Film Making. It's Telling A Story, Fiction Or Non-fiction. I Have Been Filmed Quite A Lot. Contrary To Popular Belief, Filming Isn't Glamorous. It Can Be Wearingly Repetitious, As The Same Shot Is Taken Over And Over Again.

We Each Exist For But A Short Time, And In That Time Explore But A Small Part Of The Whole Universe

Philosophers Have Not Kept Up With Modern Developments In Science. Particularly Physics.

We Got Through All Of Genesis And Part Of Exodus Before I Left. One Of The Main Things I Learned From This Exercise Was Not To Begin A Sentence With "and." When I Pointed Out That Most Sentences In The Bible Began With "and," I Was Told That English Had Changed Since The Time Of King James. In That Case, I Argued, Why Make Us Read The Bible? But It Was In Vain. Robert Graves At That Time Was Very Keen On The Symbolism And Mysticism In The Bible.

If You Understand How The Universe Operates, You Control It In A Way.

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