Shocked = Stephen Hawking getting to heaven only to realize, "he was quite incorrect about the universe," its all created and run by God.

Urm... please don't do that.
 
It's a little classless.

Beepster
Urm... please don't do that.
 
It's a little classless.

 
These pretzels are making me thirsty!

Beepster
Urm... please don't do that.
 
It's a little classless.

On the subject of stupidity
 

Stupid is anybody believing that a fair piece of wisdom from a brilliant mind should, could, and would validate anything, "occupy democrats."

Kamikaze
 

On the subject of stupidity
 

Ah yes, we're going to destroy ourselves with two attributes we've had for millions of years...
 
Doomsday poetry.  It's always been a thing.  

Modern humans haven’t been around for “millions of years”.

And it’s only over the last couple of hundred that we’ve been able to start make huge cumulative changes in things like the climate.

The ability to pretty much wipe ourselves out in an afternoon has only been around for around 50 years.

I have respect for Mr Hawking

Ditto on respect for a great mind, and Linear's OP is likely quite accurate. Hawk said he couldn't deny Creator, but the universe could be explained without such reference. We are too low on the evolutionary totem pole to comprehend anything in a broader extent regarding cosmology, no matter how advanced our primate level physicists and mathematicians are.
 
Steve was a great soul trying to challenge us one step deeper, up to a point where he hit a brick wall and finally by design gave it up in the mystery of it all while trying to figure it out..   99.9999% short of the glory, but did his best to share hi insights with the rest of us lesser in tune life forms. Passing of a good and great sage by human standards.
 
John

tlw
Modern humans haven’t been around for “millions of years”.

And it’s only over the last couple of hundred that we’ve been able to start make huge cumulative changes in things like the climate.

The ability to pretty much wipe ourselves out in an afternoon has only been around for around 50 years.

Modern humans have been around for 200,000 years or more.  But humans have been around for millions of years and there's no reason to believe greed and stupidity are exclusively recent features of modern humans.  I remain unimpressed with insights that suppose a sudden effect by a constant feature.  In Stephen's defense, I'm sure he had more to say on the subject than the meme posted above.  
 
Arrogance is far more dangerous to humans than greed, in my little opinion.  Greed is observable and can be managed, but arrogance has to be inferred, which requires self reflection, humility and skepticism - all of which are in ever shorter supply. 
 
Stupidity can't really be helped.  That word is just a reference to intellectual limitation. Too much stupidity and you don't have the intelligence to build a nuclear weapon or burn million year old organic matter for energy.  One could argue humans aren't stupid enough to not kill themselves.  
 

JohnKenn
We are too low on the evolutionary totem pole to comprehend anything in a broader extent regarding cosmology, no matter how advanced our primate level physicists and mathematicians are.
 

 
Right on.  Was it Robert Anton Wilson who said something to the effect...'every model we make tells us how our mind works, as much as it tells us about the universe..these are just human symbolic games'?