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Hawking at the Bibliothèque nationale de France to inaugurate the Laboratory of Astronomy and Particles in Paris, and the French release of his work God Created the Integers, 5 May 2006
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
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.
Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
The computer in your mobile phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand time smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
Women. They are a complete mystery.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
