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There should be no boundaries...

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.

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One could imagine such techno...

One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

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Thirty years ago I was diagno...

Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.

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A model is a good model if fi...

A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.

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I think the universe was spon...

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

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Science fiction can be exciti...

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

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In a world that is in chaos p...

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

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[In the Universe it may be th...

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

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Why does the universe go to a...

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

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Gravity is so strong that spa...

Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself, making it rather like the surface of the earth. If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth, one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge, but eventually comes back to where one started.

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Why do we remember the past, ...

Why do we remember the past, but not the future?

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One might think this means th...

One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?

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The human failing I would mos...

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.

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We don't let animals suffer, ...

We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

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It is impossible to imagine a...

It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!

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Then we shall... be able to t...

Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.

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Maybe I'm being a bit harsh o...

Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists.

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There is no way that we can p...

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.

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Time travel may be possible, ...

Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.

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I regard the brain as a compu...

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....