The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them

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Stephen Hawking was a 20th-century English theoretical physicist. Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world

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