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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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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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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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In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.
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I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.
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We waste time, so you don't have to.
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Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.
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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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I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
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When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well.
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We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
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The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy.
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There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.
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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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I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
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Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.
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