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"On seeing the Enterprise's warp engine while visiting the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation (where he would briefly play himself in the 1993 episode Descent, Part I), Hawking smiled and said: I'm working on that."

"Topology and number theory are my faves."

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

"Science is not religion. We're not going to be able to answer the "why" questions. But when you put together all of what we know about the universe, it fits together amazingly well."

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."

"Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe. Physicists refer to this feature of general relativity as background independence."

"Seventy-five years ago Erwin Schrödinger published... ... the key point... was whether life can be explained by physics. ...Schrödinger ...said "We must be prepared to find a new kind of physical law prevailing..."

"There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally."

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."

"If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!"

"The problem with general relativity is that the principles are pretty simple and the computations are always ugly."

"Audio of interview with Stenger on the podcast/radio show "Freethought" by the Freedom From Religion Foundation."

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🇦🇱Laura Mersini-Houghton

"It is well known that I am available twenty-four hours a day to women astronomers."

"We do not aim at « mathematical rigour » of exposition, which in theoretical physics often amounts to self-deception."

"The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored."

"A does not equal A because of location. For example, location in time."

"In contrast to the arbitrarily complicated evolution of a classical system, all a quantum state ever does is move in circles."

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🇺🇸Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science

agnosticism

b. 1958

"I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos."

"But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand."

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