We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
Stephen HawkingRead
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
Interpretation
Wagner's music expresses deep emotions in a way unmatched by others.
Stephen Hawking praises the composer Richard Wagner for his exceptional ability to evoke emotions through music, arguing that no one, before or after Wagner, has managed to achieve such a profound impact on listeners' feelings. This highlights the significance of music as an expressive art form that transcends time and connects deeply with the human experience.
In practice
Using this quote in a lecture about the emotional power of music.
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
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. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century.
In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.
Obviously I am a photographer and I believe in my medium: I do think that powerful photographs can force change. It doesn't take long to look and be engaged in a strong image whereas, with a story, you have to actually sit down and pause and be involved in it.
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