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!
— Stephen Hawking
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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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• Science Watch (September 1994)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Stephen Hawking" (Quotes:
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Name: Abell 520
Summary: Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Description: Abell 520 galaxy cluster with regions dominated by Dark matter color coded blue. The configurations evident in this photograph indicate a possible self-interaction of dark-matter through an as-yet unknown force or forces.
Date: August 16, 2007 (date of article publication)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photos07-090.html
Author: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UVic./A. Mahdavi et al. Optical/lensing: CFHT/UVic./H. Hoekstra et al.
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