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Hawking was one of the good physicists of his generation, not the universal genius the popular press has depicted. It is a pity, because this confusion fogs the memory of a remarkable man.

— Carlo Rovelli

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Hawking was one of the good physicists of his generation, not the universal genius the popular press has depicted. It is a pity, because this confusion fogs the memory of a remarkable man." in the context of ""Carlo Rovelli on Schrödinger, God and physics being ‘better than LSD’". The Irish Times. 2018." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Carlo Rovelli

About Carlo Rovelli

Carlo Rovelli (born May 3, 1956) is an Italian physicist and cosmologist working in the field of quantum gravity. In 1988, Carlo Rovelli, Lee Smolin and Abhay Ashtekar introduced a theory of quantum gravity denoted loop quantum gravity.