Law Quote by Stephen Hawking

““A scientific law is not a scientific law, if it holds only when some supernatural being decides not to intervene””

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We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.

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The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

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“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the…

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