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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.

Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time · 1988

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On the question of why the universe exists.

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Origin of the universe The universe Physics

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1988

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Stephen Hawking

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Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988, conclusion.

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