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• Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself, making it rather like the surface of the earth. If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth, one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge, but eventually comes back to where one started.

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  Strong, Fall, Space

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.46, Random House

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• 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.

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  Parent, Apes, Ancestor

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 8, 2015.

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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Real, Independent

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

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• Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

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  Believe, Natural, Explanation

  "Stephen Hawking to Be Buried at Westminster Abbey, Dean of Church Hails Unity of Science, Religion" by Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. March 21, 2018.

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• One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

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  Technology, Leader, Weapons

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• It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!

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  Space, Three, Four

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.25, Random House

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• We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

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  Thinking, Patents, Mystery

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• Why do we remember the past, but not the future?

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  Past, Asymmetry, Remember

  Stephen Hawking (2006). “The Theory Of Everything”, p.44, Jaico Publishing House

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• Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.

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  People, Machines, Leisure

  "Speaking of Science", www.washingtonpost.com. October 8, 2015.

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• I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.

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  Thinking, Race, Civilization

  "Anderson Cooper 360°" with Carol Costello, transcripts.cnn.com. November 26, 2004.

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• I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt.

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  Doubt, Genius, Should

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• 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.

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  Fundamentals, Might, Way

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

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• The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

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  Faith, Usual, Doe

  "A Brief History of Time". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1988.

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• 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.

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  Law, Numbers, Fundamentals

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

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• I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

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  Fusion, Energy, Nuclear

  Q&A, content.time.com. November 15, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Running, Different, Spirit

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• I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.

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  Thinking, Race, Space

  "Zero Gravity Plane Ride Lets Famed Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking Escape His Wheelchair". "NBC Today Show" with Meredith Vieira, archives.nbclearn.com. April 27, 2007.

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• It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

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  Reading, Men, Multitasking

  "Return of the time lord" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.

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  Believe, Glory, Behinds

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• I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

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  Thinking, Law, Ends

  "Audio: Stephen Hawking’s Best Quotes" by Adam Mann, www.wired.com. January 8, 2012.

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• I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.

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  Space, Want, You Only Live Once

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

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• If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here - we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not - but this is more or less what is happening with AI.

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  Civilization, Light, Messages

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• I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.

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  Running, Memories, Thinking

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• The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

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  Ideas, Doe, Surprise

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• The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.

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  Earth, Elsewhere, Universe

  "Alien Planet", May 14, 2005.

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