“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

— Stephen Hawking

As quoted in Stephen Hawking's Universe http://books.google.com/books?id=lkntNIwunAAC&pg=PA77&dq=hawking+%22my+goal+is+simple%22&ei=q5HtSvCOIoLklQTU_cWhDA#v=onepage&q=hawking%20%22my%20goal%20is%20simple%22&f=false (1985) by John Boslough, Ch. 7 : The Final Question, p. 77

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British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942–2018

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