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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."

"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

"Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out."
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"In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature."


"My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go."


"Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes."


"But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality."


"Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much."


"Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion."


"Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations."
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