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A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

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People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

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Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

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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.

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God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

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I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

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The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

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Nothing cannot exist forever.

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We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Physicist

Born: January 8th, 1942

Died: March 14th, 2018

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