"I would rather be right than rigorous."
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"If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way."
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"In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?"
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"Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four."
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"It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans."
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"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."
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"Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an ass."
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"The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise."
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"One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem."
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"The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation."
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"Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science."
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"Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation."
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"Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all."
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"One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?"
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"God abhors a naked singularity."
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"There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time."
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"We've created life in our own image."
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"Half the battle is just showing up."
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"It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!"
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"I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex."
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