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We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

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Stephen Hawking
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 8
Died: 2018
Died: March 14
Astronomer
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Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
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Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
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Stephen William Hawking
S. W. Hawking
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To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.
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Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.
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What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.
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Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.
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My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
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It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
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The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves
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The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.
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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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The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
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Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
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If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.
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The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.
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It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
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I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
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