"Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters."
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"I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated. It wastes a tremendous amount of time - especially for women, it's particularly badly timed. If they're doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives."
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"The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing."
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"All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard on the kids. It's also hard on the teachers. And I think it's totally useless."
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"People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our media. Chinese media emphasize how well things are going and suppress the bad news and publish the good news."
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"Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows."
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"Everything in my life was luck."
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"That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand."
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"The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand."
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"You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too."
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"Mathematics is really an art, not a science."
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"That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand."
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"Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate."
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"The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true."
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"I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines."
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"There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible."
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"Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox."
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"The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet."
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"Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published."
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"I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day."
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