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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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Fusion, Energy, Nuclear

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

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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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Numbers, Fundamentals

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

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• It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

  Stephen Hawking

  Cancer, Research, Rats

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Glory, Behinds

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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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Doubt, Genius, Should

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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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Reading, Men, Multitasking

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

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Important, Retrospect

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

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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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Law, Ends

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

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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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Race, Civilization

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

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  War, Creating, Events

  "Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence - but are we taking AI seriously enough?'". www.independent.co.uk. May 1, 2014.

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Ideas, Doe, Surprise

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• A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

  Stephen Hawking

  Zero, Space, Firsts

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• Exploration by real people inspires us.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, People, Inspire

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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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Earth, Elsewhere, Universe

  "Alien Planet", May 14, 2005.

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Atheist, Order, Law

  "Leaping the Abyss". Interview with Gregory Benford, reason.com. April 2002.

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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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Fundamentals, Might, Way

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

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• Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.

  Stephen Hawking

  May, Time Travel, Practicals

  "Prof Michio Kaku on the science behind UFOs and time travel". www.telegraph.co.uk. March 20, 2008.

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• I am discounting the reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?

  Stephen Hawking

  Crank, Weirdo, Ufo

  "Questioning the universe". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Use, Appreciated

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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?

  Stephen Hawking

  Fire, Breathe, Theory

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.151, Random House

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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. 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Selfish, Past, Years

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

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• Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.

  Stephen Hawking

  Makeup, Our World, Dna

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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.

  Stephen Hawking

  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 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!

  Stephen Hawking

  Jobs, Past, Expanding Universe

  "A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1988.

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• We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Technology, Race

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