Quotes by Stephen Hawking

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  • For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.
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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.
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  • The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
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  • I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
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  • We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.
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  • We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life.
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  • Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen.
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  • We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
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  • It matters if you just don't give up.
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  • Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
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