"Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population."
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"The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future."
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"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
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"There is no unique picture of reality."
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"Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself."
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"With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code."
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"I'd say I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid He might hear me."
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"What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary."
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"Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going."
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"Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead."
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"One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator."
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"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
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"It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious."
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"I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself."
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"We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics."
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"There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition."
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"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
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"There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap."
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"We waste time, so you don't have to."
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"I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws."
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