What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist.

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The twentieth century saw man's view of the universe transformed: we realized the insignificance of our planet in the vastness of the universe, and we discovered that time and space we curved and inseparable , that the universe was expanding, and that it had a beginning in time.

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Half the battle is just showing up.

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You can’t get to a time before the Big Bang because there was no time before the Big Bang. We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in.

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I don't fear God- I fear His believers.

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The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

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It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

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When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.

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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 thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

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