RIP Stephen Hawking
World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, his family said.
The British scientist was famed for his work with black holes and relativity, and wrote several popular science books including A Brief History of Time.
At the age of 22 Prof Hawking was given only a few years to live after being diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease.
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The illness left him in a wheelchair and largely unable to speak except through a voice synthesiser.
Quotable Quotes of Prof. Stephen Hawking.
1. "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."
2. "However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there's life, there's hope."
3. "People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."
4. "I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth."
5. "My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically."
6. "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
7. "Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."
8. "People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."
9. "Quiet people have the loudest minds."
10. "One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist...Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist"
11. "You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it."
12. "To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
13. "It matters if you just don't give up."
14. "Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge."
15. "The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us."
16. "Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this."
17. "I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die."
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