Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

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We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.

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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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Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

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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 increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

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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.

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We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

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It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces.

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If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

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