“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.”

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Stephen Hawking, in an exclusive interview with The Guardian, expanding on remarks made in his most recent book, The Grand Design.

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