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"I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going."
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"I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line."

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

"Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident."

"Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.""You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. Theyare my old friends. I have heard you mention them with considerationthese last twenty years at least."
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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."


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


"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."


"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?"


"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years."


"I swear to use my scientific knowledge for the good of Humanity. I promise never to harm any person in my search for enlightenment.I shall be courageous and careful in my quest for greater knowledge about the mysteries that surround us. I shall not use scientific knowledge for my own personal gain or give it to those who seek to destroy the wonderful planet on which we live.If I break this oath, may the beauty and wonder of the Universe forever remain hidden from me."


"Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries."


"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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