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12 Stephen Hawking Quotes Reveal How A Genius Thinks

Drake BaerAug 14, 2014, 21:16 IST

When he was 21, Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease.

Doctors told him he had a few years to live.

He's now 72 and one of the foremost physicists alive - a professor at the University of Cambridge, an investigator of black holes, and the author of bestselling book "A Brief History of Time ."

Here are a dozen quotes showing Hawking's approach to science and to life.