"Only time - whatever that may be - will tell."
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"If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here - we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not - but this is more or less what is happening with AI."
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"Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in."
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"Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
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"I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space."
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"TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself."
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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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"Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers."
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"I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left."
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"The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it."
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"Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more likely to survive and reproduce so their pattern of behaviour and thought will become dominant"
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"In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people---lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent."
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"It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded."
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"I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt."
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"I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera."
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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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"The Simpsons is the best thing on American television."
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"All my adult life people have been helping me."
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"The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else."
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"There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?"
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