Category: physicist
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The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.
Stephen Hawking
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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen Hawking
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
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Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
Stephen Hawking
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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Marie Curie
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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.
Stephen Hawking
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The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?
Richard P. Feynman
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The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?
Richard P. Feynman
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo Galilei
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My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.
Stephen Hawking