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He means that he is not afraid of death. There is no heaven at all and only those who dare not face death will think they will go to heaven after death.
death and answer questions.
Background information:
Stephen Hawking, born in 1942, is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. At age of 21, he was told that he had a progressive and incurable nerve disease and had only a few years to live.
"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he told the Guardian newspaper in London.
2. What made Hawking become one of the world's most famous scientists?
He became one of the world's most famous scientists with the publication of his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time."
famous scientists? 3. How did Hawking compare a brain to a computer? 4. According to Hawking, how should we live?
➢Script
WHale Waihona Puke Baidurming Up
1. What does Hawking mean by saying “heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark”?
4. According to Hawking, how should we live? He said, “We should seek the greatest value of our action”.
➢Script
Warming Up
“Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark,” the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said in an interview published on Monday.
Warming Up
3. How did Hawking compare a brain to a computer? He regarded the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; therefore, there is no heaven or afterlife for the brain.
When asked how we should live he said: “We should seek the greatest value of our action.”
Stephen Hawking
Warming Up
Questions: 1. What does Hawking mean by saying “heaven is a fairy
story for people afraid of the dark”? 2. What made Hawking become one of the world's most
Real Communication An Integrated Course
制作
外语教学与研究出版社 版权所有
Contents
1 2 3 4 5 6
Active Reading 2
Warming Up
Listen to a passage about Stephen Hawking’s view on
Hawking, 69, was expected to die within a few years of being diagnosed with degenerative motor neuron 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."
Warming Up
“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
death and answer questions.
Background information:
Stephen Hawking, born in 1942, is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. At age of 21, he was told that he had a progressive and incurable nerve disease and had only a few years to live.
"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he told the Guardian newspaper in London.
2. What made Hawking become one of the world's most famous scientists?
He became one of the world's most famous scientists with the publication of his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time."
famous scientists? 3. How did Hawking compare a brain to a computer? 4. According to Hawking, how should we live?
➢Script
WHale Waihona Puke Baidurming Up
1. What does Hawking mean by saying “heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark”?
4. According to Hawking, how should we live? He said, “We should seek the greatest value of our action”.
➢Script
Warming Up
“Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark,” the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said in an interview published on Monday.
Warming Up
3. How did Hawking compare a brain to a computer? He regarded the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; therefore, there is no heaven or afterlife for the brain.
When asked how we should live he said: “We should seek the greatest value of our action.”
Stephen Hawking
Warming Up
Questions: 1. What does Hawking mean by saying “heaven is a fairy
story for people afraid of the dark”? 2. What made Hawking become one of the world's most
Real Communication An Integrated Course
制作
外语教学与研究出版社 版权所有
Contents
1 2 3 4 5 6
Active Reading 2
Warming Up
Listen to a passage about Stephen Hawking’s view on
Hawking, 69, was expected to die within a few years of being diagnosed with degenerative motor neuron 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."
Warming Up
“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."