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Stephen Hawking's Humility: "We Are only an Advanced Race of Monkeys on a Smaller Planet"

When Stephen Hawking declared that we are “only an advanced race of monkeys on a planet smaller than a very normal star,” he did not mean to offend humanity. His intention was much deeper: to force us to look into the mirror of the cosmos and accept our true scale. At a time when individualism traps us in bubbles of certainty, making each person consider himself the center of his own universe, this affirmation acts as an essential corrective, in…
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When Stephen Hawking declared that we are “only an advanced race of monkeys on a planet smaller than a very normal star,” he did not mean to offend humanity. His intention was much deeper: to force us to look into the mirror of the cosmos and accept our true scale. At a time when individualism traps us in bubbles of certainty, making each person consider himself the center of his own universe, this affirmation acts as an essential corrective, in…

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