2日に１度のはずが・・・
5日も空いてしまいましたね。
まだビジターはいませんから、誰に気兼ねもいらないですが。
早速始めましょう。
ホーキング博士の動画より
まずはホーキング博士が、一般向け講演時には毎回最初に言う言葉から。
I was born in January 8, 1942 exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo.
「ガリレオの死からちょうど300年後に生まれた」のは単なる偶然でしょうが、偶然とは思えない、思いたくない気持ちが垣間見えるような・・・
I had to come to Cambridge to do cosmology and cosmology I was determined to do.
do の使い方、なるほど！と思いますよね。
They never actually told me what was wrong but I was pretty bad so, I did'nt want to ask for fact, the doctor who diagonosed me, washed his hands off me and I never saw him again.
wash ones's hand off~もなるほどね～。
At first, I became depressed.
I seemed to be getting worse pretty rapidly
There didn't seem any point working an my PhD, because I didn't know if I would live long enough to finished it.
pretty もこういう使い方ができるんですね。
After my expectations had been reduced to zero, every new day became a bonus and I began to appreciate everything I did have.
絶望の淵、奈落の底、を知った者にしか言えない言葉だと思います。
そして力強くこう続きます。
My moto is there are no boundarries.
When we see the Earth from Space, we see ourselves as a whole.
We see the unity and not divisions.
We are here together and we need to be together with tolerance and respect.
最後に一番感銘を受けた言葉を引用して終わります。
Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the Universe exist.
かつて『ホーキング、宇宙を語る』も読んだし、わりと最近には『博士と彼女のセオリー』も観ましたが、あんまり頭に残っていないという悲しい現実・・・。
「勉強は若いうちにせよ」ってこういうことなんですよね～。
