The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.
— Stephen Hawking Contemporary

Black holes, cosmology

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During a tour of London's Science Museum.

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2015

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Shocking

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