Freddie
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| Quote (JLT @ June 10 2010,10:41) | From the Hawking interview:
| Quote | Hawking, 68, was diagnosed with the motor neuron disorder ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, when he was 21. He was told that he likely would not live more than a few years.
But on his personal website he said that with "a cloud hanging over my future, I found, to my surprise, that I was enjoying life in the present more than before."
"I suddenly realized that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do if I were reprieved," he said.
He went on to have a family (he has three children and one grandchild) and, though his condition progressed, he continued his research unabated with the help of a wheelchair and, later, an electronic speech synthesizer. [...]
As Hawking's children navigate the many complexities of human life, he told Sawyer that he's offered up three pieces of advice.
"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it," he said. "Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away." |
Hawking was presented with a terrible diagnosis at a young age. But he didn't give up, he didn't look for someone to blame, instead, he became a famous physicist despite of a progressing and debilitating disease. I'm sure that his work has helped him many times to cope with his illness, as has his family, and the advice he's given his children IMO reflects those experiences.
Let's see what Phaedros makes of it:
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Phaedros
06/09/2010
11:42 am
By the way the philosophy that “work gives meaning to life” seems a bit close to “through work, freedom,” doesnt’t it? |
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DonaldM
06/09/2010
3:00 pm
Phaedros in #3 – Hadn’t thought of that – lol. |
It reminds him of a slogan placed at the entrances of concentration camps. And DonaldM thinks that's funny. |
Another rather unfortunate statement in the same thread from bantay.
| Quote | | 3. He needs to sit down with William Lane Craig and deal with the Resurrection. |
... my emphasis, although he probably doesn't see the irony. Just what the hell is that comment supposed to even mean to a man who has had to contemplate his own proximity to death every day while sitting in a wheelchair for the last 40 years, the last of these almost completely paralyzed? UD has now arrived at the point where it is just a magnet for people of like-minded extremist, anti-science and denialist views to congregate, there is no longer even a pretense that they are 'doing sciencey stuff'. Apparently that's just peachy with the site admin.
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