English - Physicist | January 8, 1942 - March 14, 2018
Perhaps one day I will go into space.
Stephen Hawking
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I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.
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Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
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If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
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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.
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If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.
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I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
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My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
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There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.
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My three children have brought me great joy.
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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
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The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
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