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Stephen Hawking

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking is saying that getting angry when facing a difficult problem doesn’t help, so he prefers to keep the problem in mind while focusing on other tasks. He points out that finding a solution can take a very long time, sometimes even decades, as it did with his work on information loss and black holes.

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