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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 2628145, member: 7631"] Yes, RIP Stephen Hawking. He died on Pi Day, which also happens to be Einstein's birthday. I think you'd be surprised how many people look at things so thoroughly and thoughtfully, they're just not as famous as Hawking. I would say probably a majority of Nobel Prize winners in the sciences would qualify. One who's gotten some press in the last couple of years because of the discovery of gravity waves is Kip Thorne. He's quite a visionary, very charismatic, and was able to sell the government on a billion-dollar program "just" to detect gravity waves. One of my favorite people to hear talk about his work is Dave Wineland, who studies quantum entanglement. His stuff is truly mind-boggling in its coolness; he got the Nobel in physics in 2012. I tend to be pretty sanguine about humanity. I think guys like Dave and Kip Thorne really do give us hope. [/QUOTE]