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<blockquote data-quote="Ran" data-source="post: 3015692" data-attributes="member: 129846">Him being in a wheelchair may have contributed to his public image. That does not mean he has been given the free flight based solely on the fact that he is in a wheelchair. I&#039;m sure there are many other physicists in wheelchairs that no one has heard of. He wrote an enormously successful popular science book on cosmology. He has also made important academic contributions to theoretical physics. You don&#039;t get to become Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (a position held by Newton and Dirac) at Cambridge by being an idiot. The fact that he has a big public profile may have been decisive in him being given the free tickets, but who cares? In case you haven&#039;t noticed, what you get out of life is not only based on your scientific aptitude and intellectual contribution. People do things for other reasons.Would you object if Nelson Mandela was given a free flight? He would not be as well known if he didn&#039;t spend so much time in prison, so of course it would be an outrage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ran, post: 3015692, member: 129846"] Him being in a wheelchair may have contributed to his public image. That does not mean he has been given the free flight based solely on the fact that he is in a wheelchair. I'm sure there are many other physicists in wheelchairs that no one has heard of. He wrote an enormously successful popular science book on cosmology. He has also made important academic contributions to theoretical physics. You don't get to become Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (a position held by Newton and Dirac) at Cambridge by being an idiot. The fact that he has a big public profile may have been decisive in him being given the free tickets, but who cares? In case you haven't noticed, what you get out of life is not only based on your scientific aptitude and intellectual contribution. People do things for other reasons. Would you object if Nelson Mandela was given a free flight? He would not be as well known if he didn't spend so much time in prison, so of course it would be an outrage. [/QUOTE]

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