thank you
i first met the professor in 1963. and they are time where does it go has been one of the
great joys of my life to watch this man defy every expectation both scientific and personal
please welcome onto the stage my esteemed colleague my dear friend professor hawking
thank you can you please have the first pre-selected question thank you
can you hear me
now you are recognized everywhere how do you deal with all the attention
i was stopped recently by a tourist in cambridge who asked if i was a real stephen hawking
i replied i was not and said the real one was much better looking
in 1979 you talked about the possibility of a theory of everything being discovered
before the end of the century i now predict that i was wrong
professor hawking you have said you do not believe in god
do you have a philosophy of life
you have said you do not believe in god
do you have a philosophy of life that helps
it is clear that we are just an advanced breed of primates on a minor planet orbiting around
a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies
but ever since the dawn of civilization people have craved for an understanding
of the underlying order of the world there ought to be something very special about the boundary
conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary
and there should be no boundary to human endeavor
we are all different however bad life may seem
there is always something you can do and succeed at while there is life there is hope
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