Stephen Hawking, R.I.P.

[Lazkir]

One of the greatest minds of our generation!

Will be sadly missed, an inspiration to us all on how to overcome the s**t that life can deal us.

 

[User62651]

A name and synthesised voice known all round the world. Helped engage joe public with science and space as well as make significant contributions to his field.

Given the crippling condition he endured from a relatively young age he was a remarkable individual.

RIP Professor Hawking

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

When you have discarded all possibilities as 'false', whatever remains - however improbable - must be the truth!

And as Descartes said 'In order to reach the Truth, it is necessary, once in one's life, to put everything in doubt - so far as possible'

And Hawkins was always in search of the truth to prove the improbability.

A sad day for science and humanity.

Coincidentally I have on my side table as my current 'delve into' book for coffee time - Mathematics and the Imagination by E Kasner and J Newman - this being a work that could be seen as an early 1940s introduction to the reader who might later pick up Hawkins' A Brief History of Time

RIP Mr Scientist

 

[anotherdouble]

I totally admire him for what he achieved given what life threw at him but for my brain I didn't have a clue what he was on about in his field. Totally above my pay grade

 

[One Planer]

"Look up at the stars, not down at your feet"

A definite hero of mine.

RIP

 

[Piece]

RIP. Stunning contributions to science.

 

[drdel]

A name and synthesised voice known all round the world. Helped engage joe public with science and space as well as make significant contributions to his field.

Given the crippling condition he endured from a relatively young age he was a remarkable individual.

RIP Professor Hawking

Certainly a man of great courage however you do know that the majority of buyers of his book found it confusing and failed to understand his logic.

While he certainly achieved famed in my opinion when you peeled aware some of the tortuous terminology and phraseology, his arguments and assertions were unsubstantiated and not particularly well founded.

I note most of the great and the good from the entertainment world are trying to get reflected glory even though I suspect not one has every read his PhD or his other publications.

That said his public persona and has advanced the field and Cambridge Uni.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Certainly a man of great courage however you do know that the majority of buyers of his book found it confusing and failed to understand his logic.

While he certainly achieved famed in my opinion when you peeled aware some of the tortuous terminology and phraseology, his arguments and assertions were unsubstantiated and not particularly well founded.

I note most of the great and the good from the entertainment world are trying to get reflected glory even though I suspect not one has every read his PhD or his other publications.

That said his public persona and has advanced the field and Cambridge Uni.

Apparently the fact that lack of substantiation of some of his theories - that were so out there that others struggled to understand or disagreed - was the main reason he never won a Nobel Prize in Science.

I haven't read his A Brief History of Time but intend to do so once I've got through Mathematics and the Imagination I'm reading at the moment. Currently on chapter about very big numbers entitled Beyond the Googol - yes - our beloved search engine etc is a misspelling of that word for a very very big number - a word apparently invented by the author's 9 yr old nephew for 1 followed by 100 noughts.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Someone us in Cambridge were used to seeing on the streets every now and again. Sad times.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

A brilliant mind, a brave man, and one that never stopped questioning

 

[Sharktooth]

Peacefully at home. What really? I’d have thought it he would have went out naked bungee jumping on crack!