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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/03/hawking.god.universe.criticisms/index.html?hpt=C1>>
>>I don't really have a dog in the fight here, but I wonder (probably shouldn't aloud) how much influence/prominence Stephen Hawking would have if he weren't crippled.
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>You might read his Wikipedia page. While he might not be a household name without ALS, he'd still be known by anyone who cares about science, say the same people who know the name "Richard Feynman."
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Yeah, but he's always lecturing people ... <g>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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