The usual approach of scien... by Stephen Hawking, an English Physicist

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“The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”

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Name: Stephen Hawking

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Jan 8, 1942

Profession: Physicist

Aaron Klug Walther Bothe Gordon Gould

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