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Very Quotes by Stephen Hawking
- There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no…
- I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races…
- The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among…
- It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who…
- 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…
- Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist,…
- We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things
- Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It…
- I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me.
- 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…
- Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.
- It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.
- We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes…
- Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that…
- The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat…
- I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned…
- [In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to…
- 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…
- There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.
- The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I…
- My wife and I love each other very much.
- We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.
- I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice - if they did…
- Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to…
- Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.
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