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"He estimates, during 3 years at Oxford, his only work about 1000 hours, 1 hour a day on average. 】

Stephen Hawking was born that day-January 8, 1942, just the important founders of modern science Galileo 300 anniversary of his death. This is a lot of biographical text about hawking mentioned and talked about things, it seems that this presaged some scientific missions or inheritance of the superhuman talents.

Autobiography published in 2013, a brief history of (translation of z.c.Wu, Hunan science and technology press), hawking is not immune from the "common". However, the opening when it comes to this matter, he wrote: "I estimate that about 200,000 babies born this day, but I do not know whether there were other people interested in astronomy. ”

Huo Jincheng longer than Highgate in North London, his parents have graduated from the University of Oxford. Born in a sharecropper family's father, is an expert on tropical diseases, born in a family doctor's mother worked as a tax inspector, Secretaries, and other occupations. They a loner, unsociable, is one of the more bizarre in the eyes of local families.

According to hawking his tell, childhood, he did not show any specific place. Elementary school grades in the class have never been among the front half of his, he was always very tidy job teachers often shook his head. Age 12 years, hawking has had two students in his class with a bag of candy he bet that he will never achieve anything. However, there are other students "seeing some good signs", gave him a "Einstein" nickname.

Hawking is crazy about model trains, toys and games, also built model planes and model ships. He was interested in how things work, like the object apart and see how they work, but his hand is bad, not good at it then reassembles them back. He later realized that "my ability not and my theory matches."

Outside the classroom games and making of hawking's profound impact on the road to science. In his view, his love of trains, ships and aircraft models, from understanding how the system works and how to control their desire. But from the start he began studying for a doctorate, his exploration of cosmology to meet this demand. "If you understand how the universe works, up to a point, you control it. ”

However, the Oxford University studying physics at the beginning, hawking was not a diligent exploration of good students. My brief description, that time at Oxford, as hard and get good grades is regarded as a "Grey's" sign, is the worst epithet Oxford vocabulary. You are either not very hard learning excellence, or accept reality and get fourth grade with limited capacity. He estimates in Oxford during the 3 years, his only work about 1000 hours, 1 hour a day on average. His attitude and most students there is no different, "we tend to absolutely tired, think nothing is worth striving for."

Brought great change to hawking's life turn, appeared shortly after that.

In Oxford last year, he noted, his body is becoming more and more awkward, and once even fell down several steps. He went to see a doctor, but just a word of advice: "don't drink beer. "After October 1962, attended the University of Cambridge graduate, he found that his body had two left feet. This year during the Christmas season, he fell while skating on the Lake, to the point of not climb up. Eventually, hawking was diagnosed with possible in a few years--died of a terminal illness motor neurone disease (ALS).

That was in 1963. When hawking, 21 realized that the situation would continue to deteriorate and doctors could do nothing, he may not live to complete his doctoral thesis, it's hard to be absorbed. He felt a bit of self-pity, but also "a bit tragic character tastes." Hawking admitted in the brief history of my, in front of the illnesses has not been diagnosed, he extremely bored with life, feeling that does not seem to be anything worth doing. "My illness is a consequence of changed everything. When you face when you die, you will realize that life is worth living, because there are a lot of things for you to do. ”

Soon after discharge, he had a dream that he would be put to death. This makes him " suddenly realized that if I was suspended, and there are a lot of things I can do and it is worth doing. Another I do many times dreams are, I have to sacrifice their lives to save others. After all, if I die anyway, might as well do some good . "

Luck and miracles occurred. "The fundamental change is happening I'm engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde, I met when she was diagnosed with ALS disease. This gave me the power of life. ”

To get married have to have a job, and you want to work, they must complete a doctoral dissertation. Therefore, he set to work for the first time in their lives. "To my surprise is that I find that I like to work hard. "After he got the Jane's care, academically by leaps and bounds, its cosmological research, particularly research on the mechanism of black hole radiation began to get attention. But uplift the academic reputation of hawking's condition has been exacerbated, unable to walk, sit in a wheelchair ... ...

People know his name, and more from the he is the author of a book about cosmology a brief history of time: from the big bang to black holes. The book created a science book and a miracle of global publishing history. Shortly thereafter, the people see a picture showing only three people, one of them was the most powerful man in the world--United States President Bill Clinton, who is now the Dean of science-level characters--sitting in a wheelchair, hawking. Clinton side stood next to Stephen Hawking, to pay tribute to applaud him. Photo comments only a few more than 10 words: "a politician and scholar of the eternal. "It can't help but make people think Einstein's famous remark:" politics is for the present, but an equation is something eternal. ”

Although hawking is "imprisoned" not much free space in a wheelchair, but he is the most courageous of our time, talents and achievements of space travelers--he used his thoughts to fully explore the universe. Although many of the people he suffered a "great misfortune in life" here and "unfortunate" fighting in the difficult process of confirms his compatriot, the poet Milton said: "the mind is its own place, where you can make heaven of hell, itself can make a heaven of hell. ”

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【霍金估算过，在牛津3年期间，他大约只用功1000小时，平均每天1小时。】

史蒂芬·霍金出生那天——1942年1月8日，正好是现代科学的重要奠基人伽利略逝世300周年忌日。这是许多有关霍金的传记文字都会提及并津津乐道的一件事，似乎这预示了某种科学使命或超人天赋的传承。

在2013年出版的自传《我的简史》（吴忠超译，湖南科学技术出版社）中，霍金也未能免“俗”。不过，开篇谈到此事时他又写道：“我估计这一天出生的婴儿大约有20万个，但我不知道他们之中是否还有其他人对天文学感兴趣。”

霍金成长于北伦敦的海格特，他的父母都毕业于牛津大学。出身于佃农世家的父亲是研究热带病的专家，出身于医生家庭的母亲则从事过税务稽查员、秘书等多种职业。他们一家独来独往，不爱交际，在当地人眼中是一个比较古怪的家庭。

按照霍金自己的讲述，童年时代的他并没有显出什么特异之处。小学时他在班级里的成绩从未位列前面一半，他的总是很不整洁的作业常常让老师摇头。12岁那年，霍金班里曾有两位同学用一袋糖果拿他打赌说，他将一事无成。可是，却有其他同学“看到了一些好征兆”，给他起了个“爱因斯坦”的绰号。

那一阵霍金迷上了火车模型、玩具和游戏，还建造过飞机模型和船舶模型。他对事物如何运行很感兴趣，喜欢将物件拆开，看看它们如何工作，可他的手工却十分差劲，并不擅长再将它们重新组装回去。如他后来所认识到的，“我的实际动手能力总不能和我的理论探索能力相匹配”。

课堂外的这些游戏和制作对霍金走上科学之路影响至深。在他看来，他对火车、船舶和飞机模型的钟情，来自于要了解系统如何运行和如何控制它们的强烈愿望。而从他开始攻读博士学位开始，他对宇宙学的探索就满足了这个需求。“如果你理解宇宙如何运行，在某种程度上，你就控制了它。”

然而，进入牛津大学攻读物理学之初，霍金并不是一个勤于探索的好学生。《我的简史》记述，那一时期在牛津，因为用功而得到较好等级被视为一个“灰人”的标志，是牛津词汇中最坏的诨名。你要么是不费劲学习而非常卓越，要么就接受自己能力有限的现实而得到第四等成绩。霍金估算过，在牛津3年期间，他大约只用功1000小时，平均每天1小时。他那时的态度和多数同学并无二致，“我们都倾向于绝对厌倦，觉得没有任何东西值得努力追求”。

给霍金的人生带来巨大变化的转机，就出现在那之后不久。

在牛津的最后一年，霍金注意到，他的身体正变得越来越笨拙，有一次竟然连摔了几个台阶。他去看医生，却只得到一句规劝：“别喝啤酒。”1962年10月进入剑桥大学读研究生后，他发现自己的身体更笨拙了。这一年圣诞节期间，他在湖上滑冰时跌倒，居然到了爬不起来的地步。最终，霍金被确诊患上了可能在几年内致死的绝症——运动神经元疾病（ALS）。

那是在1963年。当21岁的霍金意识到自己的情况会不断恶化而医生也无能为力，自己也许活不到完成博士论文时，已经很难做到专心致志了。他感到有点儿自怜，也“有点儿悲剧人物的味道”。在《我的简史》里霍金承认，在其病症还未得到诊断前，他对生活极为厌倦，总觉得似乎没有什么事情值得去做。“我患病的一个后果就是把一切都改变了。当你面临夭折时，你就意识到生命是值得过的，因为有很多事情等你去做。”

出院后不久，霍金做了一个自己将被处死的梦。这使得他“忽然意识到，如果我被缓刑的话，还有很多我能做而且也值得做的事情。另外一场我做了很多次的梦是，我要牺牲自己的生命去救别人。毕竟，如果我反正都要死，不妨做一些好事”。

幸运与奇迹随之出现。“事情发生根本变化的原因是我和一个名叫简·王尔德的姑娘订婚，我是在被诊断为ALS病时邂逅了她。这给了我某种生活的动力。”

要结婚就得有一个工作，而要工作就必须完成博士论文。因此，霍金在一生中头一次开始用功。“令我惊讶的是，我发现我喜欢用功。”婚后的他得到简的悉心照顾，学术方面突飞猛进，其宇宙学研究，特别是关于黑洞辐射机制的研究成果也开始受到关注。但在学术上声誉日隆的霍金病情渐渐加重，已无法自己走动，只能坐在轮椅上……

世人知道霍金的大名，更多的是来自他撰写的一本有关宇宙学的著作《时间简史：从大爆炸到黑洞》。该书创造了科学著作和全球出版史上的一个奇迹。此后不久，人们看到了这样一幅照片，画面上仅有三个人，其中一位是当时世界上最有权势的人——美国总统克林顿，一位是当今科学界的泰斗级人物——坐在轮椅上的霍金。克林顿侧脸站在霍金身旁，向他鼓掌致意。照片注释只有寥寥十几个字：“一时的政客与永恒的学者。”这句话不禁让人联想到爱因斯坦的一句名言：“政治只看眼前，而方程式是永恒的。”

尽管霍金被“囚禁”在没有多少自由空间的轮椅上，但他却是我们这个时代最富于勇气、才智和成就的空间旅行者——他用他的思想对宇宙进行全面探索。虽然在许多人看来他遭受了“人生之大不幸”，可也就在这和“不幸”搏击的艰难历程中，印证了他的同胞、大诗人弥尔顿所言：“头脑是它自己的住所，它在其中可制造地狱的天堂，也可制造天堂的地狱。”