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In Memoriam - Stephen Hawking

Quotes from Stephen Hawking

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

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

"Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking."

"If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."

"We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet."

"They're named black holes because they are related to human fears of being destroyed or gobbled up. I don't have fears of being thrown into them. I understand them. I feel in a sense that I am their master."

"A.I. could be the worst event in the history of our civilization."

"Climate change is one of the great dangers we face and it's one we can prevent."

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