"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus." [<i>The Science of Second-Guessing</i> (<i>New York Ti… - Stephen Hawking

"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."

[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]

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Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS (8 January 1942 - 14 March 2018) was a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.

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Native Name: Stephen William Hawking
Alternative Names: Hawking • S. W. Hawking • stephen • S. Hawking
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If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel.
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