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These 7 Stephen Hawking Quotes Will Make You Smile

7 Stephen Hawking Quotes That Will Make You Smile
Tiara Chiaramonte & Abigail Williams
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Happy birthday, Stephen Hawking. The renowned physicist turns 73 today.

While Hawking has been known to weigh in on all sorts of serious topics, including alien life and religion as well as relativity, his whimsical way with words has also made us smile.

Scroll down for seven of Hawking's cleverest quotations...

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Stephen Hawkings Most Provocative Quotes
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"Women. They are a complete mystery."-- Stephen Hawking's response when asked by New Scientist what he thinks about most during the day (credit:Getty Images)
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"The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes."-- Stephen Hawking in "Reality on the Rocks" TV series (credit:AP)
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"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans... We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."-- Hawking in "Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking" TV series (credit:Getty Images)
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"I have no idea. People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."-- Hawking's response when asked by The New York Times about his I.Q. (credit:Getty Images)
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"Yeah, well, there are some people who spend an awful lot of time talking about the interpretation of quantum mechanics. My attitude -- I would paraphrase Goering -- is that when I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my gun."-- Hawking in the book "The Whole Shebang" (credit:AP)
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"I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."-- Hawking in his book "Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays" (credit:Wikimedia Commons: NASA)
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"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."-- Hawking on StarTrek.com (credit:AP)
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"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special."-- Hawking in newsmagazine Der Spiegel (credit:Getty Images)
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"I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."-- Hawking in the Daily Telegraph (credit:AP)
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"Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."-- Hawking in a British Telecom advertisement (credit:AP)
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