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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
James Stockdale
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1923
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Jul 5
,
2005
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Stephen Hawking
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People
Physics
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Behavior
Understanding
Universe
Too
Else
Tell
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Tick
Particularly
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Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
Stephen Hawking
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Simple
Biology
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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Gertrude Stein
Funny
You
People
Physics
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Men
Be Strong
Stronger
Action
Supposed
Equal
Reaction
Principle
Scientific
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Persecute
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Who
Rouse
Basic
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.
Stephen Hawking
Me
Physics
School
Father
Thought
Made
Chemistry
Biology
Jobs
Would
Would-Be
He
Because
Boy
Least
Math
Mathematicians
Did
Wanted
Less
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Brightest
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
Stephen Hawking
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Before
Research
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Winning
No-One
Knew
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Intention
Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.
Joan Jett
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Same
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Fragile
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.
Richard Dawkins
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Trees
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Constantly
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Selection
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Open
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Human
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I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.
Stephen Hawking
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People
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Mystery
Understood
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Show
Helped
Profile
Raise
In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the 'Mind of God' is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace.
Michio Kaku
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Mind
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken
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