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Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 8
Died: 2018
Died: March 14
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Autobiographer
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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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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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I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
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It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.
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thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes
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You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.
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While there's life, there is hope.
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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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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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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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The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.
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I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
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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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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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Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.
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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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If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.
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