(Guardian)
Where non-mathematicians find his 11 dimensions hard to conceptualize, so Hawking seems to struggle with the concept of talking about himself in any register outside the factual. His shortest answers are the ones to those questions about feeling. I ask if he thinks it very dumb and sentimental of people to bang on about how his “genius” is related, or even enabled, by his disability, and what he thinks, with reference to The Simpsons, of the part it plays in his cult status. He replies: “The Simpsons appearances were great fun. But I don’t take them too seriously. I think The Simpsons have treated my disability responsibly.”
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