This means that at earlier times objects would have been closer together. In fact, it seemed that there was a time, about ten or twenty thousand million years ago, when they were all at exactly the same place and when, therefore, the density of the universe was infinite.

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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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A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.

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We should seek the greatest value of our action.

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When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.

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[If] there were such a God, I would like to ask however did he think of anything as complicated as M-theory in eleven dimensions.

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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

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Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

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We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

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If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? But we cannot distinguish what is real about the universe without a theory. It makes no sense to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what reality is independent of a theory.

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