We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something…Stephen Hawking
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.”
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.”
— STEPHEN HAWKING
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist · 1942 – 2018
Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist who predicted that black holes emit radiation, now called Hawking radiation. Diagnosed with motor neurone disease at 21 and given a few years to live, he spent over five decades in a wheelchair communicating through a speech synthesizer. His book A Brief History of Time (1988) sold more than 10 million copies and made him the world's most famous scientist.
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