Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.
STEPHEN HAWKINGWe only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.
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The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
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Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
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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 universe doesn’t allow perfection.
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If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.
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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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I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
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We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.
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Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.
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We waste time, so you don’t have to.
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One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
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One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
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Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
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