Just died, aged 76.

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
Inspiring guy.

Incredible man. I lost a cousin recently to MND and it is an awful disease. It was amazing what he achieved despite this.

Remarkable man

The average IQ of the planet just dropped slightly.

One less fighter against stupidity

If he's knocking on the pearly gates, I wonder if he's sat there thinking "Oops, I got that wrong!"

RIP Stephen Hawking.

I think he was given 6 months to live in 1962 with his motor neurone...he didn't do too bad!
Briefly in a Nutshell, RIP Stephen, the guy who made black holes interesting..

Pure genius and a real loss to the world and work of science.

RIP

fidelcastro wrote:If he's knocking on the pearly gates, I wonder if he's sat there thinking "Oops, I got that wrong!"

RIP Stephen Hawking.

I bet that they don't have Disabled Access.

From a two year life expectancy, back in the sixties, it’s remarkable what he has achieved.

In a sea of human stupidity this guy shone for what we all could be.

The world has lost a light. A man with a terrible disease who made vast advances in our thinking whilst at the same time keeping a sense of humour. The saddest thing is he hasn't lived to see the fruition of much of the stuff he worked on but at least he glimpsed the Higgs Boson.

The Theory Of Everything with Eddie Redmayne is a brilliant film, well worth watching.

"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."

RIP Stephen Hawking.

One less of those damned experts and science types. Got to be a good thing, right.

Less thinking, challenging, testing and exploring and more you know, gut instinct, faith and stuff from now on.

RIP Stephen Hawking.

Extremely sad news.

houseboy wrote:The world has lost a light. A man with a terrible disease who made vast advances in our thinking whilst at the same time keeping a sense of humour. The saddest thing is he hasn't lived to see the fruition of much of the stuff he worked on but at least he glimpsed the Higgs Boson.

Was thinking the same. But he will know that most of it will. Many greats die before their ideas or efforts are realised. Women couldnt vote for years after most of the famous campaigners died. But they knew their efforts werent in vain.

A great and inspirational man Hawking.

“Silent face, the marble index of a mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.” Wordsworth was writing of Newton, but he might have been foreseeing the silent face of Newton’s great successor as Lucasian Professor.
Richard Dawkins tweet earlier.

RIP The Amazingly Brilliant Stephen Hawking.

Perhaps his voice will live on.

Rip Stephen.

Its also Albert Einstein birthday today. He was also 76 when be passed away

apparently it is Pi Day today... another coincidence for the day of his passing

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R.I.P. Stephen ..a pity the Tesla car was launched into space last month ,you would have been an ideal choice to drive it through the universe..

He's just met Ken Dodd.......... The mind boggles.

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Was thinking the same. But he will know that most of it will. Many greats die before their ideas or efforts are realised. Women couldnt vote for years after most of the famous campaigners died. But they knew their efforts werent in vain.

A great and inspirational man Hawking.

On not seeing how things work out there is a brilliant little passage in Thomas Kennealy's book Schindler's Ark (The book that inspired Schindler's List) that encapsulates it all. Two women in a concentration camp are contemplating the fence that keeps them in and one of them decides that she can maybe get over it. When the other woman points out that she will be killed for certain the first one answers that she doesn't care anyway if she is killed. The second woman points out that if she dies she 'will never know how all this ends'. That passage always stuck with me as a great philosophy for keeping going when life seems dreadful. Hawking did that and much more and has left a legacy few of us can ever hope to achieve.

LoveCurryPies wrote:In a sea of human stupidity this guy shone for what we all could be.

Had we had his spirit and intellect.

Dyched wrote:Rip Stephen.

Its also Albert Einstein birthday today. He was also 76 when be passed away

Probably raising a glass or two and looking forward to the entertainment this weekend...Ken Dodd on Tour.

houseboy wrote:On not seeing how things work out there is a brilliant little passage in Thomas Kennealy's book Schindler's Ark (The book that inspired Schindler's List) that encapsulates it all. Two women in a concentration camp are contemplating the fence that keeps them in and one of them decides that she can maybe get over it. When the other woman points out that she will be killed for certain the first one answers that she doesn't care anyway if she is killed. The second woman points out that if she dies she 'will never know how all this ends'. That passage always stuck with me as a great philosophy for keeping going when life seems dreadful. Hawking did that and much more and has left a legacy few of us can ever hope to achieve.

Lived his life in the truest form of stoicism.
One of the truely great human beings.
A sad loss.

His college office was across from the room where I lived at university. Used to see him sat in his chair outside on the lawn occasionally.

One of the true giants of science. Remarkable that he lasted as long as he did with MND. I read ‘A Breif History of Time’ when it came out shortly after I completed a degree in maths and physics but had to get the textbooks out again to follow it.
How many people can have made such a brilliant contribution to mankind?

The good news is that all the information he has given us won't be lost. Although once-upon-a-time he'd have disputed that.

The coffin won't be an 'off the peg' one, certainly.

One of the rare people who everybody liked and respected. Great man RIP.

bfcjg wrote:One of the rare people who everybody liked and respected. Great man RIP.

And he had a great sense of humour.

Hawking made being intelligent cool. But he also showed us no matter what handicaps we can all achieve great things. Inspiring guy!

Damo wrote:"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
Inspiring guy.

One of Humanities better quotes.



R.I.P
Stephen

Imploding Turtle wrote:And he had a great sense of humour.