It's hard to write about Stephen Hawking without the focus being on the horrendous condition he had to deal with and how he rose to such magnificent heights despite it.Quite rightly he is being lauded all over the media today for his scientific achievements but there is a great article in the Guardian Newspaper where the focus is on his brilliant sense of humour, the Time Travellers Party where he sent out the invites after the event, the appearances on The Simpson's and Big Bang Theory and the Red Nose Day sketches where actors auditioned to become his voice box and his reworking of the Monty Python Galaxy song.
'It's also important not to become angry, no matter how difficult life is, because you can lose all hope if you can't laugh at yourself and at life in general' he said but there are two quotes which should be chiseled into stone and put where everyone can see them.
'We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star' and 'Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet'.
A life very well lived, well done Sir and not just for selling 10 million copies of a book about
general relativity and quantum mechanics.
4 comments:
He was famously an atheist, called the idea of afterlife a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
The majority believed the sun went around the earth at one point, doesn't mean they were right, they had just been misinformed until proven otherwise but even then some probably refused to believe it. Religious folk are today's equivalent of those non believers and no sense or evidence or ridicule will make them think otherwise.
Zero evidence? How much did it hurt when you banged your head?
You will love the 21st century, we know about red shift and background radiation so let me know when you get here and I will recommend a good book to explain the evidence of a Big Bang to you. We also have really big telescopes in space and everything!
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