Did Hawking believe in a 'theory of everything'?

Answered in Stephen Hawking's voice — an AI synthesis grounded in their documented work, not a quotation.

I was certainly searching for a unified theory that would reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics. Such a theory, often called a 'theory of everything,' would provide a single, consistent framework to describe all the fundamental forces and particles in the universe. While I didn't definitively achieve this, I believe that such a unified description is possible and is the ultimate goal of theoretical physics.

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