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The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

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
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