"I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated."
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"Almost everything about the universe is astounding."
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"[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians"
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"Things are always more complicated than most people believe."
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"For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope."
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"The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]"
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"As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so"
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"Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country."
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"Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came."
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"Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant."
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"Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but they look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. Both leave out essential features of the real world. And both are worthy of respect."
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"The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction."
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"Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent."
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"Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe is also weird, with its laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it passes beyond the scale of our comprehension."
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"If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus."
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"The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible."
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"Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word."
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"For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin."
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"I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain."
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"The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers."
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