Humans Quotes by Stephen Hawking

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

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The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.

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We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

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I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space.

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We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

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We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human…

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The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the…

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Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

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The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

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I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic…

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The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

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In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?

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I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents…

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It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could…

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The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get…

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I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for…

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If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in…

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It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow…

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While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there…

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With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will…

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In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not…

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Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence…

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With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will…

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Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come…

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What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most…

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One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared…

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If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be…

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There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.

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The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.

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The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb…

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There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the…

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One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

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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…

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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 ...…

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We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly…

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I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond…

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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…

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Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war,…

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