originally posted in:Secular Sevens
This is stupid. Dawkins is smart to be sure, but he's definitely not in Stephen Hawking's league. Nobody is.
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Edited by Seggi: 4/26/2013 2:52:01 AMPlenty of people are, they just don't do popular science, and so we don't hear about them much. Hawking's not the smartest physicist in the world, he's just the most recognisable at the moment.
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I wouldn't call what Hawking does 'popular science' by any means. Most people couldn't care less about black holes or theoretical physics.
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No, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular-science]popular science[/url] is just science aimed at a general audience, not the science with the most friends. Hawking does lots of it.
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If he's so smart, why isn't he smart enough to get out of a wheelchair? checkmate, ric.
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So much win.
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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Witten]Eh...[/url]
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Ed Witten frightens me on an intellectual level.
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Ok. Maybe.