The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
STEPHEN HAWKINGI have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.
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I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
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What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science.
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Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world’s population.
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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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God abhors a naked singularity.
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
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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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If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
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The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.
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There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.
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Time and space are finite in extent, but they don’t have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.
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One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
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What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?
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It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.
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I’ve noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.
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Why do we remember the past, but not the future?
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There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.
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Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.
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There is no unique picture of reality.
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It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.
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I don’t fear God- I fear His believers.
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The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
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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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We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.
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We don’t let animals suffer, so why humans?
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