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"So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist."
"Quiet people have the loudest minds."
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."
"It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful."
"It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist."
"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."
"People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."
"It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God."
"It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why."
"So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It's like asking for directions to the edge of the earth; the earth is a sphere, it doesn't have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise."
"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
"When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol."
"People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."
"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."
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
"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."
"Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security."
"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"