Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.
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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
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Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
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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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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.
Stephen Hawking in Der Spiegel (1989)
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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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If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
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If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.
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We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
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