@CNN: Hawking was born in Oxford on what turned out to be an auspicious date: January 8, 1942 — the 300th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei. He said that if humans can learn to live in space, then our future will be bright. https://t.co/dcz73wfQJT https://t.co/FCE2snXhuL

@CNN: Hawking was born in Oxford on what turned out to be an auspicious date: January 8, 1942 — the 300th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei.

He said that if humans can learn to live in space, then our future will be bright. https://t.co/dcz73wfQJT https://t.co/FCE2snXhuL