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I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me.

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Stephen Hawking
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 8
Died: 2018
Died: March 14
Astronomer
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Stephen William Hawking
S. W. Hawking
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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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Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
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There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.
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So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.
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One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
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The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.
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Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.
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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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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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I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college I was too busy enjoying myself.
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There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.
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Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?
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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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Science will win because it works.
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It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
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All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.
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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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A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
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I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
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