Monday, May 16, 2011

Stephen Hawking: 'heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark'

In an interview with The Guardian, ahead of key note speech on Tuesday, Prof Hawking discusses his thoughts on death.
He rejected the idea of life beyond death and emphasised, what he described as the need to fulfil our potential on Earth by making good use of our lives.
"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years,” he told the newspaper.
“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail.”
He added: “There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”
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