An "Electroliquid Aggregation" - Hawking and Kuepper

The two clients I chose out of the three options are Stephen Hawking and Nicole Kuepper. Here are the quotes I found for them (posted previously with Charles Darwin quote):

Stephen Hawking: "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
John Boslough, "Ch. 7: The Final Question," in Stephen Hawking's Universe (1985), 77.

Nicole Kuepper: "Everyone in the solar energy world is trying to think of ways to make the solar cells cheaper and easier to make... and so we started thinking about simple processes that we could use like low temperature firing conditions, ink-jet printers because they are very simple and easy to understand, and we came up basically with this new way of making solar cells that is cheap, low tech, low temperature and able to be done in some of the least developed countries of the world. We hope."
Peter Trute, "Solar Star: Nicole Kuepper", UNSW Media Youtube video, added September 1st 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8eNeReo-hw (accessed 15th April 2010).

There is progress here: from an individual's personal gain to the benefit of many people around the world. There is irony in Hawking's statement; that a complete knowledge of the universe could be a 'simple' task. This would clearly be complicated and difficult as it is so ambiguous, whereas Kuepper uses words such as 'simple' and 'basic' when describing the process of changing the means of solar energy as her technique for doing this is to simplify the process of creating solar cells. There is progress here, not only from an individual's benefit to a more worldly benefit, but also from 'understanding' to change.
These contrasting ideas are in disagreement with each other, but they also work together, as there can be no change without first understanding, and if we were only interested in understanding there would never be progress in thought and action.