Stephen Hawking quote: [In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would ...

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

~ Stephen Hawking ~

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