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More Quotes by Stephen Hawking
Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?
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.
It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.
I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.
The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.
contains on average some one hundred billion stars. If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible to the naked eye on a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would fill a ball more than eight miles wide.
associates and collaborators were Roger Penrose
Aristarchus suspected that this was the case and believed that the stars we see in the night sky are actually nothing more than distant suns.
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.
Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer.
