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“You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
― Across the Frontiers
― Across the Frontiers
“...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.”
― The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
― The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
“Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.”
― Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
― Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
“The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values")”
― A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
― A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
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