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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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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."
"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."
"In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; 'here', there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization)."
"Goal..., let's see this year how far I can reach... and the year which is comming it will be a number above the goal number."
"Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted."
"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."
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"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?"
"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."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. - December 12, 2004"
"I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition."
"There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works."
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