“I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already! It could come in the next 20 years, but we might never find it.”
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- Wikiquote: Stephen Hawking
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Science Watch (September 1994)
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Hawking, Stephen. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Stephen Hawking. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
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