Stephen Hawking Quotes

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Stephen Hawking

Profession : Physicist

Birth : January 8, 1942

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

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God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

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Women. They are a complete mystery.

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While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

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Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

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Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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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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I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

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There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

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Computers double their performance every month.

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There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

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I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

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Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

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I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

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I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

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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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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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