If you haven't read Stephen Hawking or otherwise had an occasion to appreciate his intelligence and sharp wit, you have missed the opportunity to appreciate one of our greatest living thinkers. Just a quick snippet from a recent appearance in Seattle at which he commented on his "M-theory" of other, alternate dimensions as a potential 'theory of everything':
"I feel to ignore it would be like claiming that God put fossils in the rocks to trick Darwin into believing in evolution,"
In response to a journalist's question about time-travel at a press conference:
"I have experimental evidence that [backward] time travel is not possible. I gave a party for time travelers, but I didn't send out the invitation until after the party. I sat there a long time, but no one came."
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