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Life could spread from planet to planet or from stellar system to stellar system, carried on meteors.

— Stephen Hawking

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Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

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.

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I still believe there are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.

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Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

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In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?

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