Tag: Stephen Hawking
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Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.
Stephen Hawking
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Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
Stephen Hawking
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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen Hawking
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Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren’t equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it’s just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.
Stephen Hawking
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I had not expected ‘A Brief History of Time’ to be a best seller.
Stephen Hawking
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Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.
Stephen Hawking
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I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‘Einstein.’
Stephen Hawking
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We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.
Stephen Hawking
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I have wondered about time all my life.
Stephen Hawking
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There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.
Stephen Hawking