Stephen Hawking:

The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies.

— Stephen Hawking Contemporary

Black holes, cosmology

Context

Interview with 'Der Spiegel'

Date / Period

1988

Source

https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a-633555.html

Verification

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Explanation

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Method

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