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"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?"
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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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"I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out."
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"I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit."
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"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
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"To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water."
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"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."
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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
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"Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much."
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"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?"
Fire
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
Change
"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."
Time
"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."
Universe
"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
Science
"God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen."
God
"Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."
Beauty
"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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"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."
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"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."
History
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