"The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities."
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"What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist."
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"Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion."
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"I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
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"Nothing cannot exist forever."
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"Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry."
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"The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all."
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"Women. They are a complete mystery."
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"There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over."
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"Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool."
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"I believe things cannot make themselves impossible."
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"If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
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"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."
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"I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories."
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"Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest."
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"A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat."
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"I’m not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws."
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"Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space."
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"Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen."
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"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
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