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The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.

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Stephen Hawking
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 8
Died: 2018
Died: March 14
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Autobiographer
Cosmologist
Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
Pedagogue
Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
Hawking
Stephen William Hawking
S. W. Hawking
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One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
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Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.
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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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Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only those universes that are compatible with our existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense the lords of creation.
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Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets.
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I do not believe in a personal God.
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If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave much for us to do. We need an intellectual challenge.
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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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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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The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
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Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.
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When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.
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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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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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The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.
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To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.
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I like physics, but I love cartoons.
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Half the battle is just showing up.
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I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me.
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In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.
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