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" It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize. "
Stephen Hawking
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" In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians. "
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