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More Quotes by Stephen Hawking
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
It is like a drinking straw. The surface of a straw is two-dimensional. However, one direction is curled up into a small circle, so that from a distance the straw looks like a one-dimensional line.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
The basic assumption of science is scientific determinism.
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.
We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.
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.
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
