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Stephen Hawking

Science and Technology
There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
3.1 · 60 votes · 70 reads
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Nature
There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.
3.9 · 24 votes · 181 reads
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Science and Technology
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.
3.3 · 39 votes · 148 reads
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Time
Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.
4.1 · 29 votes · 30 reads
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Time
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.
3.5 · 57 votes · 38 reads
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Time
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
4.2 · 12 votes · 182 reads
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Science and Technology
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
3.5 · 61 votes · 14 reads
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Science and Technology
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
4.3 · 23 votes · 139 reads
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Science and Technology
Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.
3.0 · 10 votes · 164 reads
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Science and Technology
Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.
3.1 · 15 votes · 38 reads
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Art and Culture
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
3.5 · 33 votes · 41 reads
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Nature
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.
4.2 · 48 votes · 7 reads
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Nature
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
5.0 · 55 votes · 57 reads
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Thought and Reason
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
4.9 · 6 votes · 29 reads
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Science and Technology
We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.
4.8 · 50 votes · 145 reads
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Nature
We live in a bewildering world.
4.5 · 64 votes · 94 reads
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Science and Technology
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.
4.1 · 56 votes · 89 reads
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Virtues
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
3.7 · 8 votes · 97 reads
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Various
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
4.3 · 52 votes · 74 reads
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Nature
We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don't know the probability that a planet develops life.
5.0 · 14 votes · 50 reads
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Society
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.
3.5 · 25 votes · 57 reads
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Various
What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.
4.6 · 11 votes · 148 reads
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Society
What was God doing before the divine creation?
4.2 · 53 votes · 93 reads
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Various
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.
3.8 · 53 votes · 156 reads
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Science and Technology
When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won't have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.
4.1 · 29 votes · 18 reads
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Nature
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 wo
4.0 · 62 votes · 15 reads
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Science and Technology
Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
3.0 · 22 votes · 96 reads
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Science and Technology
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
5.0 · 61 votes · 17 reads
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Nature
Women. They are a complete mystery.
4.8 · 32 votes · 22 reads
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Society
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
3.8 · 60 votes · 123 reads
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Government and Politics
You can't regulate every lab in the world.
3.6 · 64 votes · 84 reads
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