Stephen Hawking, you will be missed

What the scientist meant to a product of the Indian education system

When my colleagues enter my office, they immediately notice the famous photograph of the Solvay congress which brings the likes of Einstein, Curie, Dirac, and Schrödinger (among still other greats) in the same frame. My office, like a temple, therefore houses some of my idols who, it seems, literally look to the future (an ability they also demonstrated well in the past), with a combined vision peering through the frame, to provide motivation, inspiration, and direction. This is the phrontistery for the child within me who still remains—partly a scientist, partly an artist, but an explorer on the whole.

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