Stephen Hawking Quotes

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Stephen Hawking

Profession : Physicist

Birth : January 8, 1942

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

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Nothing cannot exist forever.

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Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

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There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.

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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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I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

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In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

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We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

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So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

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I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.

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God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

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Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

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The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

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Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

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My wife and I love each other very much.

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

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Exploration by real people inspires us.

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The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

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In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

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