RIP Stephen Hawking

[spikesgirl58]

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[a_boleyn]

RIP Stephen Hawking.

[spikesgirl58]

He fought a heck of a battle.

[a_boleyn]

With the physical problems he had you would have thought he'd take it easy in later years and rest on his laurels but he fought on.

[spikesgirl58]

I don't think that was in his nature. He was a fighter.

[alynwa]

At a time when it seems the US is rushing headlong to the science Dark Ages, this is a tremendous blow.

[spikesgirl58]

It sure is.

[badly_knitted]

He was an inspiration to all of us. Oddly enough, I was thinking about him yesterday. Strange coincidence.

[spikesgirl58]

He certainly was. He proved that you can do anything you want if you want it badly enough.

[badly_knitted]

And he proved that the mind can only be limited by the body if you let it be. Perhaps the most brilliant man of our times.

[spikesgirl58]

I think that you are right.

[ravena_kade]

He was such an extraordinary man

[spikesgirl58]

He certainly was. :D

[hypatia_66]

I was lucky enough to work in the Cambridge College of which Stephen Hawking was a Fellow, so I saw him quite often. He was a very difficult man - which is probably why he survived so long with that dreadful disease. My first memory is from 1991 when I first lived there, when he was still fairly independent - I watched him suddenly emerge on his wheelchair from a side street and launch himself straight across the road almost under the wheels of a car. It was deliberate. (The driver must have had kittens at the thought of having nearly run him down.) He used to do it a lot - I saw him do it in King's Parade once, a much busier street

[spikesgirl58]

He truly was gifted. I have heard stories about him and the movie sort of touched upon it, but I suppose we make allowances considering all that his forward thinking has given us.

[hypatia_66]

Well that's the thing. You can't judge a genius by his human behaviour - only by what his brain produces. He was awful but he was tenacious and also witty. And like I said, that's probably how he survived and overcame that cruel disease. I'm all admiration.