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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 8
Died: 2018
Died: March 14
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Autobiographer
Cosmologist
Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
Pedagogue
Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
Hawking
Stephen William Hawking
S. W. Hawking
Universe
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Theology is unnecessary.
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If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
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