Category: physicist
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You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.
Richard P. Feynman
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As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a ‘singularity.’
Stephen Hawking
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I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
Stephen Hawking
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We should seek the greatest value of our action.
Stephen Hawking
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I’m an atheist.
Stephen Hawking
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I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
Stephen Hawking
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There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Stephen Hawking
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No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
Stephen Hawking
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It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.
Stephen Hawking
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Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‘But how can it be like that?’ because you will get ‘down the drain,’ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
Richard P. Feynman