Category: physicist
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When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‘Calculus for the Practical Man.’ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.
Richard P. Feynman
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So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
Stephen Hawking
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We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
Stephen Hawking
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I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
Stephen Hawking
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All my adult life people have been helping me.
Stephen Hawking
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Nothing cannot exist forever.
Stephen Hawking
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There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.
Stephen Hawking
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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.
Stephen Hawking
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I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn’t getting anywhere – like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department – I would draw the other people.
Richard P. Feynman
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We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
Stephen Hawking