QuoteQuest“Thus it seems that even God is bound by the uncertainty principle, and can not know both the position, and the speed, of a particle. So God does play dice with the universe. All the evidence points to him being an inveterate gambler, who throws the dice on every possible occasion.”
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- Wikiquote: Stephen Hawking
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Lecture "Does God Play Dice", 1999, hawking.org.uk
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Hawking, Stephen. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Stephen Hawking. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
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