What do you think of Stephen Hawking?

Stephen Hawking is the most overrated scientist in science. Period. I wrote the first and only book that does a critical review of his work and thought I'd be done in 200 pages. It took 386. read more

Marshall Barnes, Have caught more mistakes made by Stephen Hawking than anyone else in the world Answered Dec 26, 2016 · Author has 1.7k answers and 819k answer views Stephen Hawking is the most overrated scientist in science. read more

[Update 14 March 2018, after Hawking’s death: I think it important to mention (because this answer is about personal opinion) that I was impressed by Stephen Hawking’s prominent actions in the last year to campaign against damaging changes to the UK National Health Service, e.g. Stephen Hawking blames Tory politicians for damaging NHS; and Stephen Hawking joins lawsuit aimed at foiling Hunt's NHS shake-up. read more

Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. Hawking lived for more than 3 decades with ALS, a type of motor neurone disease. Despite his condition, Hawking communicated with people from all over the world about science and technology. read more