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Out Quotes by Stephen Hawking
- As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine.…
- One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there…
- One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of…
- I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.
- The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
- Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.
- The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.
- Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these universes that are…
- "Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space…
- Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
- A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to…
- Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for…
- Now, radical forward thinking is offering hope for the future: Replacement body parts to order. A team of scientists in California believe that if you…
- There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish…
- If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only…
- I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes that is the…
- If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
- Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp…
- 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.
- We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not…
- It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination.…
- 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…
- The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few…
- I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall…
- To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be…
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