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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein		Thursday Jul 31, 2025
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It is not yet clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. Stephen William Hawking

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	Stephen William Hawking
	(1942-) Nature 1975 257 - British astrophysicist holds Newtons chair, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge.

Other Stephen William Hawking Quotes

God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. See related quotation from Albert Einstein.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

It is not yet clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

It matters if you just don't give up.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.

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

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? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?