Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible.
In plain words
Talking to each other is how humans build things no one could build alone.
Where these words come from
- 50% sureLots of sources credit Stephen Hawking with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- From a British Telecom advertisement voiced by Hawking (1993); one complete sentence excerpted from a longer scripted passage, likely ad-agency-written.
- British Telecom advertisement
- 1993 · UK television · Ad about the power of communication, later sampled by Pink Floyd
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