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Stephen Hawking
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 8
Died: 2018
Died: March 14
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Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up
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If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here - we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not - but this is more or less what is happening with AI.
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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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The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.
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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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It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans.
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We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?
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The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.
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We should seek the greatest value of our action.
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Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.
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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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As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control. It was a natural next step to want to know how the universe works.
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Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
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Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head.
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The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
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One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
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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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If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.
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Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.
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