What I meant by ‘we would know the mind of God’ is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn’t. I’m an atheist.
STEPHEN HAWKINGThe thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
More Stephen Hawking Quotes
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One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
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While there’s life, there is hope.
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If at first you don’t succeed, try management.
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Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.
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So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
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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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Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
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There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.
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The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
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We don’t let animals suffer, so why humans?
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It matters if you just don’t give up.
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I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.
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The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.
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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
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