(i) Yes, the prospect of meeting Stephen Hawking make the writer nervous because Stephen Hawking was the ablest scientist,who is quadriplegic on the earth. He was the worthy author of world renouned book “A Brief History of Time”. He had become the successor to Issac Newton at the University of Cambridge. Meeting with such a great personality made the writer nervous.
(ii) Yes, he felt excited at the same time because it made him stronger to meet the disabled astrophysics who can be considered the successor of Issac Newton, for achieving something huge. This made him aware of the many possibilities present before him, thereby helping him to reach out further than he ever thought he could.
