“The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in…”

“The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological — technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science.”

— Stephen Hawking

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From Hawking's article A Brief History of Relativity, in Time magazine (31 December 1999)

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