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Quotes by Stephen Hawking
- The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
- 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 your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.
- The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
- The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
- The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
- There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
- There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
- 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 space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
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