"I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions..."
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"The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years."
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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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"The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy."
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"What is important is that we have the ability to create."
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"Love the neighbor. But don't get caught."
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"There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning."
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"Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself, making it rather like the surface of the earth. If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth, one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge, but eventually comes back to where one started."
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"What was God doing before the divine creation?"
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"[I think the most about] women. They are a complete mystery."
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"Save water. Shower with your girlfriend."
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"It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
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"I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once."
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"You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it."
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"I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space."
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"A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel."
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"Among physicists, I'm respected I hope."
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"I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets."
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"When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well."
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"Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!"
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