A little bit of discussion about whether Hawking is a genius or an idiot.....
I have posted my opinions..
Please do join in......

You really do push the envelope at times when it's the weekend and you are on the bottle again.

Professor Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA is an internationally renowned scientist, how dare you suggest that he is an idiot.

Cambridge University

My friend........if you can keep up a bit.
I know damned well who he is.
You are being rather mindless poster at the moment, and I request an apology.

Actually read my posts on the thread?
I defend him to the nth degree, you idiot.
You gall me at this moment.
You pissed in the wind without reading what I posted about him.
And hence you have earned the term.

There has never been a cat
Who couldn't calm me down
By walking slowly
Past my chair.
~Rod McKuen


Amen to that.
And with that, I retire for the night.
Such as it is.

Before a cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of cream.
~T.S. Eliot

A cat isn't fussy — just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor. ~Arthur Bridges

Enough about Hawking...
Now it's gone to cats.

People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around. ~Susan Easterly

Brain parts

of which you need to have yours tested!

The question was "Is he a genius or idiot?"

Still failing to comprehend what you consider to be the top language on the planet.

Einstein is a genius, Hawking is an expert. The only way one can be labelled a genius is when they're dead, for the simple reason they have stopped learning.

For those who consider themselves geniuses because they "deem" themselves to know everything are certainly idiots!

Hmmm... interesting. Well I really enjoyed his Brief History of Time... couple of hairy moments requiring multiple re-readings but got there in the end :))))

I hold him in very high regard :) Where he developed feet of clsy for me was in abandoning his wife and children for the attractions of a younger woman. He disappointed me a lot then - but many have done so before him and will continue to do so in the future and he did not deserve what followed :( I'm glad it was a brief madness. I think overall - it is safe to call him a genius without waiting until after he has died. But... that's just the musings of little me... a non-genius right-brainer :)