![]() ![]() “Primitive life is relatively common, but that intelligent life is very rare. “If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God,” he wrote in his 1988 bestseller ‘A Brief History of Time’. “Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion,” he told PARADE magazine in 2010. “ Science will win, because it works.” But his work wasn’t all dry rationality. “There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, science, which is based on observation and reason,” Hawking told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in 2010. “They are a complete mystery,” he said in an interview with The New Scientist magazine in 2012, having confessed to having spent most of his 70th birthday thinking not about the wonders of the cosmos, but about women. ![]()
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