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• 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.

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• My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

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• 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.

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• I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

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• One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

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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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• There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

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• To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

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• Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

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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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Stephen Hawking (30)

Birth:	8th January, 1942
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Cosmologist, Physicist

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