Stephen Hawking Quotes

• 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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• It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

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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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• Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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• 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.

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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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• God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

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• 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?

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• The quietest people have the loudest minds.

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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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