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While graciously escorting contest-winner Adaeze Uyanwah around the Science Museum of London, Stephen Hawking weighed in on the best and worst of human nature.
When Uyanwah asked him “what human shortcomings he would alter, and which virtues he would enhance if this was possible,” Hawking warned against aggression and lobbied
for empathy.
According to Cambridge
News, Hawking believes that human aggression “threatens to destroy us all.” Whereas such behavior might have been integral to survival during “caveman days,” its current risks far outweigh its benefits.
Not convinced that human empathy will prevail in time to save this planet, Hawking is advocating for the colonization of outer space. He views such pioneering as “life insurance” for the human race.
Hawking has repeatedly stated: I
believe that the long term future of
the human race must be space…
Resources
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Future-human-race-depends-space-travel-says/story-26054730-detail/story.html
Copyright February 25, 2015 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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