BREAKING: Physicist Stephen Hawking dies at the age of 76 – family

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Finally free from that body. Happy flying Steve.

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Sad to hear. Such a great mind.

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An extraordinary human that led an extraordinary life.

I always wondered how much more he could have articulated had he been able to communicate without assistance.

Hopefully you've found a few new answers.

Prof. Stephen Hawking....
The world of physics will not be the same.
Godspeed.

Awww.

RIP.

RIP oh wise one,

May your mind be free of your earthly burdens.

Toast to a great mind !

The world just got a lot more stupid.
Rest In Peace.

I knew something felt off in the universe tonight.

originally posted by: Sillyolme
Finally free from that body. Happy flying Steve.

Couldn’t have said it better myself, with any luck all of his deepest curiosities have been revealed in the great beyond.

This is some of the saddest news I've had the misfortune to hear.

Stephen Hawking taught me different ways to view the universe that seemed so counter intuitive it took everything I had not to say "no way"!

His contributions to human knowledge are incalculable.

I believe this to be very good news. His consciousness can leave that wretched body and expand into it's entirety.

Imagine having a mind so great like that, limited by a body he was living inside of. Terrible.. he is free now.

Rest in peace to one of the greatest minds in human history ♡

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An amazing man, with a mind that knew no bounds. To see so much in his mind, the sheer force of will to survive where so many would have given up, and to go beyond what most would do. He will be missed, and I think in some ways his passing is far more important than than anything else.

The mind.

Wonder one day if we can connect or plug in into the “network” one day even after passing.

Can’t put it into words, but I always thought he was a perfect example how powerful the mind is especially when we are physically impaired.

RIP

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I don't think so.

R.I.P. one of the greatest minds to have ever lived.

Dear Mr Hawking,

Thank you for your time on earth, your mind, and your sense of humor.

RIP to one of the most profound minds in history and the man who inspired my curiosity of the unexplainable. This quote is the basis of all my searching to understand the world in which we live:

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? -Stephen Hawking

I hope in death he finds the answer...

“You can ask what will happen to someone who jumps into a black hole,” Dr. Hawking once said in an interview in 1978. “I certainly don’t think he will survive it.

“On the other hand,” he added, “if we send someone off to jump into a black hole, neither he nor his constituent atoms will come back, but his mass energy will come back. Maybe that applies to the whole universe.”

“I want to show that people need not be limited by physical handicaps as long as they are not disabled in spirit.”

A great mind and a great man. He will be missed but will live on through the work he's done and the minds he's inspired.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
- Julie Burchill