In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.


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When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason
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It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel...
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Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is....
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The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, dir...
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The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.
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If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turne...
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I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
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It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that expla...
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God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physic...
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If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
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Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand fore...
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My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice ...
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Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the com...
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change noth...
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When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sens...
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There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which ...
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For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed ...
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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
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So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests,...
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We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught ...
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It matters if you just don't give up
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In such a massive place as the cosmos we only have to look at ourselves for prove that extremely unl...
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I put a lot of effort into writing A Briefer History at a time when I was critically ill with pneumo...
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Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would ...
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When asked, 'What did God do before he created the universe?' St. Augustine didn´t reply, 'he was p...
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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value
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