Stephen Hawking Quotes - Page 17

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• I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Book, Science

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• In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

  Stephen Hawking

  Odds, Law, Facts

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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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Law, Optimism

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

  Stephen Hawking

  Universe

  "Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1993.

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• Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

  Stephen Hawking

  Funny, Humor, Long

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• I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

  Stephen Hawking

  Want, Knows, Greater

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• Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ideas, People, Divine

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• [Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?]
  More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

  Stephen Hawking

  Politician, Scientist, Should

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• In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

  Stephen Hawking

  Opportunity, Cells, America

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ideas, Differences, Giving

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Believe, Moon

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Space Science, Planets, Accidents

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

  Stephen Hawking

  Risk, Scientist, Theory

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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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Two, Three

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• There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Computer, Danger

  Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2001.

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Population, Use, Growing

  "Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.

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• The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.

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  West, Financial, Kind

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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.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Able, Principles

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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• We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Entering, Periods, Dangerous

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• [Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?]
  We won't know for a few years.

  Stephen Hawking

  Knowledge, Thinking, Years

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Father, Doe, Bars

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2007.

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