There ought to be something very distinctive about the theory that describes the Universe.
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View All Authors View Sources(E)ven if we find a unified theory, we may be able to make only statistical predictions.
— Stephen Hawking (1980)
p. 20
This renormalization procedure has never been put on a very firm conceptual or mathematical basis.
— Stephen Hawking (1980)
p. 10
[T]he Anthropic Principle … can be paraphrased as ‘Things are as they are because we are.
— Stephen Hawking (1980)
p. 4
The universe is not expanding in space, but consists of expanding space.
— Edward Robert Harrison (1981)
p. 6
It … now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform an experiment whose results we cannot predict.
— Stephen Hawking (1980)
Astronomical measurements are, without exception, measurements of phenomena occurring in a terrestrial observatory or station; it is only by theory that they are translated into knowledge of a universe outside.
— Arthur Eddington (1933)
p. 17
… there is no doubt that his words express what is in our minds when we refer to determinism.
— Arthur Eddington (1933)
p. 50