Stephen Hawking, probably the most popular scientist of today, has celebrated his 70th birthday yesterday. That is itself is amazing as he has continuesly defied odds and medical predictions, with his motor neurone disease known as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), He was diagnosed at age 21 and was not expected to live more than two years. Well, he did far better than that.
But it was said that he is too ill to attend a celebration of his birthday and rather he gave a recorded message in which he urges for interplanetary travel and colonize other planets, arguing that we face a grim future unless we spread out from our terrestrial home. “I don’t think we will survive another thousand years without escaping beyond our fragile planet,” Stephen's message said.
In the same message, he said "Remember to look up at the stars, not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."
He is a major icon of science and by being so, I owe some of my interest and facination to the subject from reading of his books like A Brief History of Time and the latest The Grand Design(which i got in an audiobook).
Happy Birthday Professor Hawk!
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