Look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
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- Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018) — closing passage of Hawking's final book, also related in a 2010 ABC interview with Diane Sawyer
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There is very likely to be life in other solar systems, in planets around other stars.
Sally RideImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.
Carl SaganWonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
PlatoI don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
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William ShakespeareWe live in a beautiful and wonderful world, and the more you know about it the wiser and the better you will be.
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