We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.


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It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel...
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Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is....
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The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, dir...
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The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.
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If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turne...
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I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
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It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that expla...
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God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physic...
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If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
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Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand fore...
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My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice ...
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Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the com...
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change noth...
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When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sens...
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There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which ...
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For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed ...
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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
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So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests,...
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We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught ...
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It matters if you just don't give up
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In such a massive place as the cosmos we only have to look at ourselves for prove that extremely unl...
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I put a lot of effort into writing A Briefer History at a time when I was critically ill with pneumo...
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Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would ...
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When asked, 'What did God do before he created the universe?' St. Augustine didn´t reply, 'he was p...
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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value
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If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by every...
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