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Stephen Hawking Inspirational Quotes (230)

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The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.
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I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again.
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Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
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The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.
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It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.
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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
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TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
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I'd say I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid He might hear me.
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Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all.
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If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.
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If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.
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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.
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If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.
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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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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
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I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
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A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?
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I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.
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More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.
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In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?
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One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.
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If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
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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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The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.
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