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Joins the pantheon of greats. Sits comfortably with Newton and Einstein.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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stui magpie wrote:Joins the pantheon of greats. Sits comfortably with Newton and Einstein.
"Sits comfortably"?
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Public Lecture, 18 January, 2017
(Roger Penrose Inaugural Lecture at the Mathematical Institute - University of Oxford):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH6I_YPOAbY


PhD thesis (Cantab, 1966):
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251038

[Warning: I have not looked at this, but typesetting was terrible until recently (perhaps the 90s), so brace yourself for old typewriter print and handwritten equations.]
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You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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Pies4shaw wrote:
stui magpie wrote:Joins the pantheon of greats. Sits comfortably with Newton and Einstein.
"Sits comfortably"?
:?
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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stui magpie wrote:
Pies4shaw wrote:
stui magpie wrote:Joins the pantheon of greats. Sits comfortably with Newton and Einstein.
"Sits comfortably"?
:?
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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stui magpie wrote:
Pies4shaw wrote:
stui magpie wrote:Joins the pantheon of greats. Sits comfortably with Newton and Einstein.
"Sits comfortably"?
:?
His wheelchair was the best money could buy. :wink:

I believe that's where P4S was going with that.
He's mad. He's bad. He's MaynHARD!
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Humour (interview with John Oliver):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8y5EXFMD4s


Some other humorous Hawking stories:

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2018/03/14/6- ... this-week/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/scie ... abbey.html
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His ashes will be interred in the Abbey in a ceremony "of thanksgiving" to be held later this year.

He will be in good company. Sir Isaac Newton was buried in the Abbey in 1727. Charles Darwin was buried beside him in 1882. More recently, the physicists Ernest Rutherford in 1937 and Joseph John Thomson in 1940 have been interred there.
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Dr. Hawking often said that he wanted a formula describing what is called Hawking radiation ... engraved on his tombstone. One hopes that the Abbey will follow through.
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