murphy to write the nutty professor movie series directed patch adams starring robert william or robyn williams dragon-fly with kevin costner you were executive producer of the a.b.c. t.v. series eight simple rules for dating my teenage daughter what have you learned from the breath of experience. well i've learned how important storytelling is in the human experience you know madeleine l'engle is a famous author she wrote a wrinkle in time and she said jesus was not a theologian he was god amongst those who told stories and i think storytelling is as old as the human species i think we used to sit around the fire and we said talk about the day and and it's how we learned to be human how we learned to walk. more empathetically more productively and so i've learned about the power of storytelling and you know i just toured america with the film i am and you would think that some of my later films would be the ones that have really good films that are more memorable from bruce almighty to patch adams but i tell you it's the simplicity of making a human being laugh ace ventura no matter where i go

one man still believes where there's a will there's a way robyn williams one of those behind the doors of the hubble space telescope things humankind will still make its way into space all specially next. mr williams thank you very much for being with us today it's an honor sir my pleasure said the beauty of. security basically it's funding and if. you think that beautiful do you have a better chance. that pretty. no i would say well it's always nice to look at beauty. but. as far as a scientific value of hubble is concerned or trying to understand the universe and beauty is one of those things maybe you've heard the expression and beauty is in the mind of the beholder and so in fact what i see beauty and sometimes is a picture that other people might not consider beautiful but it reveals the answer to some important question like how stars form how galaxies form and so to a scientist the beauty is a totally different thing that. produces beautiful images that children like to see is very important for the funding of hoebel and of course that's important for we scientists that's exactl

some that say the country's dream of space exploration is now over position rejected however by robyn williams and distinguished astronomy and then behind the hubble space telescope he says the golden era of space research is in its prime you can see a full interview with him next hour here. we're going through difficult periods now in the past few years but when i talk about the golden age of astronomy i talk about the the space missions that we've had in the past fifteen years and the large ground based observatories in the new technological developments that have been able to us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that are really advanced or understanding of astronomy if you look at the fundamental discoveries that have been made in astronomy. paul sawers qualls ours. the existence of planets around others in the past fifteen years there's been an explosion of knowledge about things and then largely is due to important technological developments so they've all come together to cause this large number of discoveries that i would say really makes it appropriate to call this age a