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4 Stephen Hawking Quotes on Survival

Stephen Hawking quotes on survival

  1. Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

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  2. I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

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  3. It has certainly been true in the past that what we call intelligence and scientific discovery have conveyed a survival advantage. It is not so clear that this is still the case: our scientific discoveries may well destroy us all, and even if they don't, a complete unified theory may not make much difference to our chances of survival. However, provided the universe has evolved in a regular way, we might expect that the reasoning abilities that natural selection has given us would be valid also in our search for a complete unified theory, and so would not lead us to the wrong conclusions.

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

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