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But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.

But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.

Stephen Hawking
Powerful, Energy, Climate
Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

Stephen Hawking
Odds, Law, Facts

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Stephen Hawking
Science, Law, Optimism
Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

Stephen Hawking
Universe
"Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1993.

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.

Stephen Hawking
Ideas, People, Divine
Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

Stephen Hawking
Funny, Humor, Long

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Stephen Hawking
Want, Knows, Greater

[Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?] More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

Stephen Hawking
Politician, Scientist, Should

The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy.

Stephen Hawking
Stars, Believe, Moon
Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

Stephen Hawking
Opportunity, Cells, America

there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Stephen Hawking
Ideas, Differences, Giving

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.

Stephen Hawking
Real, Computer, Danger
Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2001.

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

Stephen Hawking
Risk, Scientist, Theory

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Stephen Hawking
Space Science, Planets, Accidents
"Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Stephen Hawking
Years, Two, Three

The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.

Stephen Hawking
West, Financial, Kind

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Stephen Hawking
People, Able, Principles
Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.

Stephen Hawking
Entering, Periods, Dangerous

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

Stephen Hawking
Population, Use, Growing
"Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Stephen Hawking
Knowledge, Thinking, Years

One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.

Stephen Hawking
Father, Doe, Bars
"Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2007.

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