If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered. -Stephen Hawking

 

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.


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This quote is just one of 19 total Stephen Hawking quotes in our collection. Stephen Hawking is known for saying 'If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

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It matters if you just don't give up. -Stephen Hawking
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

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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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Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen. -Stephen Hawking
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I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.

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