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Professor Stephen Hawking: Humanity won't survive 1,000 years on Earth

Professor Stephen Hawking has warned humanity will not survive another 1,000 years on Earth unless the human race finds another planet to live on. The celebrated theoretical physicist and cosmologist painted a grave picture of the future while delivering a lecture on the universe and the origins of human beings at the Oxford Union debating society on Monday.

www.independent.co.uk

“But we must also continue to go into space for the future of humanity.”

“I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet.”

Prof Hawking advised a deeply polarised Britain that “just like children, we will have to learn to share” as we face “perilous times” in an essay criticising the attitudes towards wealth that precipitated Brexit.

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.”