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Stephen Hawking RIP

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  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,521
    RIP. Was always on my dinner party list.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    RIP hugely inspirational man, in so many respects
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    Showed what the human mind can do - so often we focus on what we can't do.

    An amazing man. A true one-off.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    A game changer if ever there was one. RIP Sir.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    edited March 2018
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  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    Incredible man, the world will be a poorer place without him. A great memory for me was making him 'laugh' once, three or four years ago in his Cambridge office.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    RIP
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,783
    https://youtu.be/OH8s4N15zdg

    classic...

    RIP
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    We were blessed to have him for as long as we did.

    Sic transit gloria mundi.
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  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    Already commented but thought I would add that his fight against a debilitating disease, that should have killed him decades ago, proves that disability is not something that defines you and people should look beyond the obvious.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,018
    Absolute legend of Academia. Was lucky enough to sit in on one of his guest lectures when he visited my University a few years ago. Still remember him posing for selfies with about 300 undergrads on the Mile End Road on the way back up to Stepney Green tube station a couple of years back.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,337
    edited March 2018
    RIP

    He's my former colleague and it goes without saying he's the smartest person I've ever - or will ever - worked with.

    Born on the anniversary of Galileo's death and died on the anniversary of Einstein's birth. Time is circular: it never ends.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Great man.
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,883
    A man with extraordinary courage and a brilliant and inspirational mind - RIP
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I can't pretend to understand even a tenth of what he taught us, but he taught is to look up at the stars rather than down at our feet. Every time we stargaze we will see a reflection of him.
    Amazing amazing man, Man of courage and intellect. RIP.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,721
    lordromford said:

    https://youtu.be/OH8s4N15zdg

    classic...

    RIP

    cracks me up when the boxing glove on a spring comes out of his chair and punches skinner
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,450
    On the importance of having a sense of humour: 'Life would be tragic if it weren't funny' - Interview in The New York Times, December 2004.

    - On death: 'I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first' - Interview in The Guardian, May 2011.'

    Intelligent, wise and modest.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,521
    Chizz said:

    RIP

    He's my former colleague and it goes without saying he's the smartest person I've ever - or will ever - work with.

    Born on the anniversary of Galileo's death and died on the anniversary of Einstein's birth. Time is circular: it never ends.

    Amazing, @Chizz - both that you worked with him and the appropriate coincidences of time.
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    RIP.

    Some amazing quotes from him, I like this one:

    "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. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.”
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  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    A genius, a brave man and considering he was given 2 years to live at age 21, tough as old boots.

    RIP.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Stephen Hawking will forever be remembered as a Genius mind but without the genius who invented the complex voice box, Stephen would have just been another disabled person without a voice. Nature gave him a rubbish body and a peerless, unrivalled brain. Thank you for the journey of a lifetime. RIP
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,037
    For some reason, the quote comes to mind about dying twice - the first being when you physically pass away; the second being when your name is spoken for the last time.

    I think Stephen Hawking will live on for a long, long time yet.

    RIP.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,148
    Absolute top guy...was in the next room when i was at college 20 years ago giving a lecture, i wanted to ask him a question about vacuum technology problem that we had, but couldn't get near him...so knowledgeable and so genuine and generous with his time and wisdom....will be sadly missed.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    RIP. A true genius, a great loss to science.
  • micks1950
    micks1950 Posts: 943
    edited March 2018
    RIP.

    Stephen Hawking alongside Tariq Ali and Venessa Redgrave 50 years ago....

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  • micks1950
    micks1950 Posts: 943
    edited March 2018
    micks1950 said:

    RIP.

    Stephen Hawking alongside Tariq Ali and Venessa Redgrave 50 years ago....

    image

    Whoops..

    Just tweeted by Tariq Ali:

    Tariq Ali
    ‏ @TariqAli_News

    Tariq Ali Retweeted Luke Savage

    THE MAN IN THE 1968 PIC IS NOT STEPHEN HAWKING
    Sad that Stephen Hawking has left us...he opposed the Vietnam war and Iraq. BUT he is not in the 1968 demo pic. Repeat NOT. An illiterate caption by the National Portrait Gallery has created this myth. Wish it was him but it isn't
  • daveaddick
    daveaddick Posts: 1,926
    Very sad but inevitable. A truly extraordinary human being, a genius who lived with and worked with Motor Neurone Disease for far longer than anyone could have expected. Not many people like him ever live, as you can tell I am a fan, RIP Professor you left the world a legacy that we can all benefit from.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    Very sad. A very special inspirational man R.I.P.
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    RIP

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