# Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s great scientists, has died - Physics - Host: [economist.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/economist.com/) - Saved: March 14, 2018 (2018-03-14T12:22:53Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2eeb0c92de13/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2eeb0c92de13.json ## What Jamie wrote The world lost a bright star with the passing of Stephen Hawking. This obituary ends poetically: > No philosophy that puts humanity anywhere near the centre of things can cope with facts like these. All that remains is to huddle together in the face of the overwhelmingness of reality. Yet the sight of one huddled man in a wheelchair constantly probing, boldly and even cheekily demonstrating the infinite reach of the human mind, gave people some hope to grasp, as he always wished it would. He definitely gave that hope to millions of people. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT45: Weekly Thing #45 / Mar 17, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/45/), People ## Same host - [The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cb70aad952c4/) (economist.com, August 18, 2017) - [What men and women think about their partners’ careers and help at home](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2858acb8decf/) (economist.com, October 6, 2017) - [How leading American newspapers got people to pay for news - Funnel vision](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e2d4d46f8935/) (economist.com, November 2, 2017) - [The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do - A memo to big tech](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/392c1f0ae8fb/) (economist.com, January 21, 2018) - [Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience - Programming languages](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8424355ea08f/) (economist.com, July 21, 2018) ## Saved the same week - [AWS Documentation is Now Open Source and on GitHub —AWS News Blog](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/abc364adb424/) (aws.amazon.com, March 14, 2018) - [Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5454b8810fc4/) (insights.stackoverflow.com, March 14, 2018) - [ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live - Issuance Policy - Let's Encrypt Community Support](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/751d25980607/) (community.letsencrypt.org, March 14, 2018) - [SankeyMATIC (BETA): A Sankey diagram builder for everyone](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/db4e18532f25/) (sankeymatic.com, March 14, 2018) - [Toys R Us to close all 800 of its U.S. stores - The Washington Post](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b076d86fd57d/) (washingtonpost.com, March 14, 2018) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21738688-groundbreaking-physicist-was-76-stephen-hawking-one-worlds-great-scientists-has