Tag: physicist

• Tuesday, May 17th 2011 - 01:05 UTC

  “Heaven is a fairy story, there is no afterlife” says eminent Stephen Hawking

  

  Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said in an interview. Hawking, 69, was expected to die within a few years of being diagnosed with degenerative motor neurone disease at the age of 21, but became one of the world's most famous scientists with the publication of his 1988 book “A Brief History of Time”.