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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.

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— Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Relativity" (1999)

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