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Stephen Hawking1942–2018

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Stephen Hawking on philosophy

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Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
During the same 1994 exchange with Penrose as the previous quote, transcribed in The Nature of Space and Time (1996) by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, p. 26 and also in “The Nature of Space and Time” (online text)
- God
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.
A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 122
- Science
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?
A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 174
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
- Theology

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