Category: physicist
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I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.
Galileo Galilei
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei
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A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
Stephen Hawking
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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Stephen Hawking
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As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.
Stephen Hawking
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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie
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We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.
Stephen Hawking
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There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
Richard P. Feynman
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Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
Stephen Hawking
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We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.
Stephen Hawking