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Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

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Stephen Hawking
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 8
Died: 2018
Died: March 14
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I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.
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It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.
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Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.
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The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.
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We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them
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I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe
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The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.
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It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
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Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
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A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.
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If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? But we cannot distinguish what is real about the universe without a theory. It makes no sense to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what reality is independent of a theory.
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Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe.
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Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.
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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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There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.
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Science makes God unnecessary.
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I think computer viruses should count as life.
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I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
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Nothing cannot exist forever.
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