• Science and Technology

  Although almost every theoretical Physics agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

  3.9 · 14 votes · 99 reads

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  Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

  4.5 · 58 votes · 123 reads

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  Among Physicss, I'm respected I hope.

  3.9 · 46 votes · 66 reads

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  As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

  4.3 · 18 votes · 116 reads

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  As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

  3.6 · 31 votes · 80 reads

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  As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

  3.3 · 14 votes · 56 reads

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

  4.7 · 30 votes · 65 reads

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  Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything tha

  4.5 · 48 votes · 46 reads

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  Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

  3.3 · 18 votes · 135 reads

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  Computers double their performance every month.

  3.0 · 43 votes · 117 reads

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  Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

  3.7 · 28 votes · 195 reads

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  Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

  4.1 · 59 votes · 72 reads

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  Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

  3.2 · 60 votes · 170 reads

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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?

  4.1 · 46 votes · 151 reads

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  Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

  5.0 · 22 votes · 150 reads

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  Exploration by real people inspires us.

  4.5 · 5 votes · 196 reads

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  For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predic

  4.8 · 40 votes · 128 reads

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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.

  4.8 · 41 votes · 32 reads

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  God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

  3.7 · 53 votes · 162 reads

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

  4.8 · 5 votes · 126 reads

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  I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice - if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer

  4.0 · 45 votes · 163 reads

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  I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

  4.8 · 24 votes · 94 reads

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  I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

  4.1 · 6 votes · 35 reads

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  I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

  3.7 · 26 votes · 175 reads

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

  5.0 · 22 votes · 169 reads

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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.

  4.4 · 22 votes · 191 reads

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  I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

  4.9 · 49 votes · 198 reads

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  I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

  3.6 · 59 votes · 189 reads

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

  3.2 · 36 votes · 157 reads

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  I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

  4.2 · 33 votes · 62 reads

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  I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.

  3.4 · 28 votes · 47 reads

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  I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

  4.3 · 33 votes · 66 reads

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  I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

  3.7 · 44 votes · 11 reads

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  I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

  3.7 · 60 votes · 10 reads

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  I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to ex

  4.6 · 11 votes · 16 reads

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  I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.

  4.5 · 22 votes · 159 reads

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  I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

  4.2 · 62 votes · 49 reads

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  I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.

  3.2 · 41 votes · 134 reads

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  I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.

  3.1 · 31 votes · 45 reads

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  I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

  5.0 · 31 votes · 125 reads

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