I was only briefly a professional astrophysicist before moving on to other things, but that brevity was not due to a lack of love for the subject, and I can trace my career from where I am now directly back to reading Steven Hawking’s writing as a child. I’ll be forever grateful.

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Eric Wagoner

@ewagoner

I was a junior in high school when “A Brief History of Time” was published, already certain I was going to be a cosmologist and already a devotee of Hawking. His book was the first time I could point to something and say “this is what I want to do” and have people understand me.

3/14/2018, 12:25:44 AM

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Eric Wagoner

@ewagoner

I was only briefly a professional astrophysicist before moving on to other things, but that brevity was not due to a lack of love for the subject, and I can trace my career from where I am now directly back to reading Steven Hawking’s writing as a child. I’ll be forever grateful.

3/14/2018, 12:33:26 AM

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