Stephen Hawking: “if You Sit in a Black Hole, Don’t Give up, There’s a Way Out”

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In one of his most memorable public interventions, delivered to hundreds of people at the Royal Institute in London, Stephen Hawking transcended the boundaries of science to connect with human experience. As he addressed depression, a condition that according to the World Health Organization (WHO) is the leading cause of global disability, the theoretical physicist built an analogy between black holes and emotional distress. As he pointed out at…