applause fills the air as Stephen is carried into Great St Mary’s Church pic.twitter.com/PLtualKgC2
— Haskan Kaya (@HaskanKaya) March 31, 2018
Earlier today, they laid Stephen Hawking to rest in a private funeral held at University Church of St. Mary the Great in Cambridge, England. Although the funeral itself was attended by only 500 guests, the streets of Cambridge swelled with onlookers who broke into applause as the coffin holding the physicist made its way into the church, leaving us with some proof that there’s still something right in a world tilting toward the wrong, that we can still appreciate someone who overcame so much, and left us with even more.
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I’ll wager that Stephen Hawking believes in GOD now…! He was a very brave example of a person living life through struggles with such a great disability. It didn’t seem to slow him down and he still seemed to enjoy his time here on Planet Earch..!! R.I.P. Professor Hawking and thank you for your contributions..!!
R.I.P. Professor Hawking
A very brave man and clever man. An inspiration to all man kind.
Rest in peace.
No estuve de acuerdo en muchas cosas,pero tengo que reconocer que fue EXTRAORDINARIO, se hizo querer de todos.Estoy seguro que este momento esta feliz “recorriendo”el Universo,mirando de cerca los “agujeros negros”….
Looks like you lost that then.
‘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.’ – Stephen Hawking