We already know how close, according to Saint Augustine, science is to sex (Science and sex). As we want to create controversy, today we bring a discordant opinion; in this case from a self-confessed atheist: Stephen Hawking, one of the scientific icons of our time. In a lecture on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Hawking extolled what a scientist feels when he makes a discovery, a moment that since Archimedes we identify with the word Eureka:
There is nothing comparable to that moment when you shout Eureka! and you know you have discovered something that nobody knew before. I wouldn’t compare it to sex… but it lasts longer.
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