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"Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe doesn’t have an end, it had a beginning in the Big Bang. One might ask what is before that but the answer is that there is nowhere before the Big Bang just as there is nowhere south of the South Pole."
"If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night."
"If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them."
"Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head."
"I wouldnt be here today if it were not for the NHS, I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived."
"I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again."
"One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life."
"The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West."
"[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years."
"I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things."
"We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist."
"I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me."
"Scientists tend to risk theories they admire"
"Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years."
"Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory."
"It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up."
"When two's company, three's the result!"
"Science makes God unnecessary."
"In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy."
"Many people find the universe confusing - it's not."