Memories and recollections of the late, great Stephen Hawking | Letters
Roger Penrose's splendid obituary of Prof Stephen Hawking (15 March) overlooked one very important aspect. He was a passionate campaigner for peace and protester against nuclear weapons. I only had the privilege to meet him once, at the Royal Society, where he launched in the UK the internationally renowned Doomsday Clock from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He would not have been pleased by the current hysteria of the cold war being resurrected in such a ghastly way.
Dr David Lowry
Former director, European Proliferation Information Centre, London
" Unlike some of his fellow scientists, Stephen Hawking went fairly gently on believers. Probably best styled as an agnostic rather than a hard-line atheist, Hawking was memorable for his mention of "the mind of God" in A Brief History of Time. This was a phrase that spawned a considerable amount of helpful thinking on the relationship between religion and science.
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