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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#confine #human #human spirit #limit #matters

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. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#been #certain #divinely #events #gradual

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#dice #does #god #only #play

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

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

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