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"In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics."
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"The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astronomical is because, whenever they each do, most users do not share or say something because they believe they have something worth remembering; they do mainly or only because they fear being forgotten."
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"You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend."
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"To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction."
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"Money cannot redeem time."
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"Live together as united people in a beautiful peaceful world."
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"Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family yo have yet to come to know."
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"When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else. I have no interest in dating."
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"Looks like somebody's got jungle fever.''That's not even the right kind of racist."
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"It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
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"Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame."
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"God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator."
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"Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God"."
Science
"Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions-so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from the evidence? Might it not equally well determine that we draw the wrong conclusion? Or no conclusion at all?"
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"The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them."
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"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
Philosophy
"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?"
Philosophy
"Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in."
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"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
Life
"Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out."
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"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. - December 12, 2004"
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