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Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

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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