English - Physicist | January 8, 1942 - March 14, 2018
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
Stephen Hawking
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I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.
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I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.
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Computers double their performance every month.
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Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
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There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
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There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.
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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
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It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.
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There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
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Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
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No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
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