His encroaching mortality without hope influenced his philosophy.
I think Hawking is a little past the “encroaching mortality” point!
May have something to do with the crowd he was hanging out with... though I have to add that I don’t know how much time he spent there. Maybe just once. But we are influenced by those with whom we associate.
Stephen Hawking pictured on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Island of Sin’
The UK Telegraph ^ | January 12, 2015 | Agency
Posted on 7/24/2019, 3:17:44 AM by Trump20162020
New pictures show Stephen Hawking enjoying the hospitality of Jeffrey Epstein on the private Caribbean island where Prince Andrew is alleged to have slept with an underage “sex slave”.
The celebrated physicist can be seen at a barbecue on Little St James as well as taking a boat cruise and submarine tour of the sea bed off the island.
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