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.
STEPHEN HAWKINGOne cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
More Stephen Hawking Quotes
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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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I would rather be right than rigorous.
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The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
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The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.
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The meaning in life is not out there but in between our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.
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Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.
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People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
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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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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
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I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.
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Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn’t as if he was going to need them.
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You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.
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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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The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
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Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
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Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator.
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Women. They are a complete mystery.
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The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.
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The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves.
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I’d say I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid He might hear me.
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There is no unique picture of reality.
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When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.
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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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The universe doesn’t allow perfection.
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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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