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If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

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Stephen Hawking
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 8
Died: 2018
Died: March 14
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Stephen William Hawking
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