Stephen Hawking

I love Stephen Hawking's humor that shows despite his enormous physical disability.

Hawking has been thinking about the question, "Are we alone?"

He says, “Probably not. Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on earth."

Should we worry about aliens? To that he says: “Alien abduction claims come from ‘weirdos’ and are unlikely.”

He compared people who don't want to spend money on human space exploration to those who opposed the journey of Christopher Columbus in 1492. "The discovery of the New World made a profound difference to the old. Just think we wouldn't have had a Big Mac or KFC."

(excerpted from http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/STEPHEN_HAWKING?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)