Category: physicist
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
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Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
Stephen Hawking
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Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
Stephen Hawking
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Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.
Stephen Hawking
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei
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When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.
Stephen Hawking
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I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
Stephen Hawking
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If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.
Stephen Hawking
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It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.
Stephen Hawking