{"id":1994,"date":"2011-03-27T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visaisahero.wordpress.com\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2025-03-08T09:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T09:06:52","slug":"wise-words-from-stephen-hawking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2011\/03\/27\/wise-words-from-stephen-hawking\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise words from Stephen Hawking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Response upon being questioned as to his IQ, in interview with Deborah Solomon &#8220;The Science of Second-Guessing&#8221;,\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em> (12 December 2004)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven&#8217;t done badly. People won&#8217;t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can&#8217;t believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From an interview with Ken Campbell on the 1995 show, Reality Beyond Our Ken<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there&#8217;s life, there is hope.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On voluntary euthanasia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science.<em> The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/eb\/Stephen_Hawking.StarChild.jpg\/144px-Stephen_Hawking.StarChild.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers. Response upon being questioned as to his IQ, in interview with Deborah Solomon &#8220;The Science of Second-Guessing&#8221;,\u00a0The New York Times (12 December 2004) It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. 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