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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

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#gives #life #meaning #purpose #without

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

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 beauty. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#although #beautiful #beauty #contain #give

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#human race #i #into #next #race

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#boast #i #losers #people #their

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#energy #fusion #global #global warming #i

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#each #equation #i #included #me