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- On his disability "My disabilities have not been a significant handicap in my field, which is theoretical physics. Indeed, they have helped me in a way by shielding me from lecturing and administrative work that I would otherwise have been involved in." "Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free."
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Sep 27, 2005 · It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. Stephen Hawking. Life, People, Complaining. "Return of the time lord".
Sep 25, 2015 · On Disability. “My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be...
- Hawking and Our Understanding of Disability
- “I Speak For The People You Can’T Hear”
- Conclusion
At the age of 21, Hawking was diagnosed with a rare neurological disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and given only a few years to live. Although he did gradually become paralyzed and lose his ability to speak, Hawking exceeded his life expectancy by decades and continued to make seminal contributions to the scientific world. He al...
Hawking himself frequently acknowledged that much of his success was thanks to a financially-privileged background. In particular, he emphasized how different his life would have been without access to the technology that stopped him from becoming locked in his body. “My communication system broke down for three days, and I was shocked by how power...
“We have a moral duty to remove the barriers to participation, and to invest sufficient funding and expertise to unlock the vast potential of people with disabilities,” wrote Hawking, in a foreword to the World Report on Disability. In the wake of his death, some have suggested that the best way to honor Hawking is by working to remove these barrie...
- On life. “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.” Hawking gave this now-famous piece of advice to his three children Lucy, Robert and Tim and related it in an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer in 2010.
- On living with a disability. “My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with.
- On being diagnosed with ALS. “My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus,” he told the New York Times in 2004, after being asked how he kept his spirits up.
- On being a celebrity. “The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized,” he told an Israeli journalist in 2006.
Mar 14, 2018 · Steve Bell, from the MND association, said: "He was probably the most famous person with a physical disability and it almost normalises it to see his absolute genius.
That makes us something very special.”. “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”. “Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. “Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations.
Feb 5, 2024 · “If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault, but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you. One has to have a positive attitude and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in; if one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.