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Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?

Social animals, on the other hand, are more intelligent than those with just a reptilian brain.

There's no reason why we cannot become smarter, more perfect, and maybe even live longer.

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

I concluded that, unhappily, I'd been born into a world dominated by a rampaging monster called 'law' that was both all-powerful and all-stupid

Consciousness determines existence.

THE UNCANNY VALLEY

First is Epsilon, which equals 0.007, which is the relative amount of hydrogen that converts to helium via fusion in the big bang.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

Animals cannot speak and understand English

In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron.

Third is Omega, the relative density of the universe. If Omega were too small, then the universe would have expanded and cooled too fast.

The right hemisphere controls sensory attention and body image; the left hemisphere controls skilled movements and some aspects of language.

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

Fifth is Q, the amplitude of the irregularities in the cosmic microwave background, which equals 10

Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.

The quantum theory is based on the idea that there is a probability that all possible events, no matter how fantastic or silly, might occur.

Your cell phone today has more computer power than all of NASA when it put two men on the moon in 1969.

And Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said in 1943, I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

But if I make an observation, what is to determine which state I am in? This means that someone else has to observe me to collapse my wave function.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

Already physicists are doing the basic calculations necessary to make an MRI machine fit into a cell phone.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

Impossible is relative.

To understand the precise point when the possible becomes the impossible, you have to appreciate and understand the laws of physics.

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.

We are now entering a new golden age of neuroscience.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems ... there's no law of physics preventing them.

I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

Like the invention of the telescope, the introduction of MRI machines and a variety of advanced brain scans

We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

As in the movie The Matrix, we might one day be able to download memories and skills using computers.

Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

Entire cities could sprout instantly in the desert, with skyscrapers made entirely of force fields.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

The Fate of the Earth, points

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

In 2025, don't be surprised if a Chinese flag is placed on the moon.

Are skilled in the techniques necessary to neutralize any rogue robot.

In the future we'll be able to mentally contact anybody we want, see whatever image we want. And when we don't like it, we'll just turn it off.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

Will we no longer be the most intelligent being on earth,

If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. - ALBERT EINSTEIN

why doesn't the universe spin?

The "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace.

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it. - DANIEL HILL, COFOUNDER OF THINKING MACHINES CORP.

When Einstein later complained that "God does not play dice with the world," Bohr reportedly fired back, "Stop telling God what to do.

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.

The fruit fly has roughly 150,000 neurons in the brain.

Intelligence seems to be correlated with the complexity with which we can simulate future events,

Riemann found that in four spatial dimensions, one needs a collection of ten numbers at each point to describe its properties.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,

Cosmology is the study of the universe as a whole, including its birth and perhaps its ultimate fate.

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

Starting with mice, cats, and going up the evolutionary scale of animals.

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo,

The two greatest mysteries in all of nature are the mind and the universe.

One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

In my field, physics, I see that most of us are engage in physics not for the money but for the sheer joy of discovery an innovation.

In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

You can always spot the scientist at a strip club, because he is the only one examining the audience.

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

Fourth is Lambda, the cosmological constant, which determines the acceleration of the universe.

The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them. - ANONYMOUS

If you remove a single transistor in the digital computer's central processor, the computer will fail.

God throws dice, what can I say?

Second is N, equal to 1036, which is the strength of the electric force divided by the strength of gravity, which shows how weak gravity is.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

There are an estimated 100 billion neurons residing inside the skull with an exponential amount of neural connections

No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us.

You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.