"I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein."

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Source : "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

Lucy Hawking

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“This is ideal, youâ€™ll see. We do everything backward. Itâ€™s just how we are. We began with an elopement. After that, we made love. Next, weâ€™ll progress to courting. When weâ€™re old and silver-haired, perhaps weâ€™ll finally get around to flirtation. Weâ€™ll make fond eyes at each other over our mugs of gruel. Weâ€™ll be the envy of couples half our age.”
“In the foolishness lies the danger.”
“With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for nearly half a millennium can now be opened to see what really has happened to our planet in the past -- and that past is not as distant as we might suppose.”
“One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are”
“But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.”
“So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your now is no more valid than the now of someone located far away in space who can move freely, then reality encompasses all of the events in spacetime.”
“I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.”
“I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether its in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue.”

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