My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

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Stephen Hawking
British physicist born in 1942 who advanced cosmology through the singularity theorems and Hawking radiation despite living with ALS. A Brief History of Time brought cosmology to millions.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
-- Albert Einstein
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
-- Isaac Newton
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
-- Richard Feynman
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
-- Edwin Hubble