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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. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#before #could #einstein #fiction #general

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#justly #others #undervalued #who

The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else. ↗

— Mark V. Hurd

#easier #else #i #make #matrix

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#horrible #human #human race #like #nuclear

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#afterlife #computers #dark #fairy #heaven

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. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#bang #big #big bang #cooking #good

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? ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#approach #bother #cannot #constructing #describe

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#dead #here #philosophy #questions #these

Nothing cannot exist forever. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#exist #forever #nothing

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#about #because #changes #code #complexity