Shocking Sayings

1,057 sayings found from the Contemporary era

Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn't turn out so well.

— Stephen Hawking 2016
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The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.

— Stephen Hawking 2015
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The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

— Stephen Hawking 2014
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We are close to the tipping point, where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees [Celsius], and raining sulfuric acid.

— Stephen Hawking 2017
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Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next thousand or 10 thousand years.

— Stephen Hawking 2016
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I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species…

— Stephen Hawking 2004
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I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the…

— Stephen Hawking 2010
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Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light…

— Stephen Hawking 2010
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If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.

— Stephen Hawking 2010
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Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up.

— Stephen Hawking Approximate
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I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

— Stephen Hawking 2016
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I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

— Stephen Hawking Approximate
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Without imperfection, you or I would not exist.

— Stephen Hawking 2010
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I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead.

— Taylor Swift 2017
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I don't like your little games. Don't like your tilted stage.

— Taylor Swift 2017
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The role you made me play of the fool, no, I don't like you.

— Taylor Swift 2017
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I don't like your perfect crime. How you laugh when you lie.

— Taylor Swift 2017
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But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time. Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time.

— Taylor Swift 2017
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I've got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined. I check it once, then I check it twice, oh!

— Taylor Swift 2017
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I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me.

— Taylor Swift 2017
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