Hawking

Mankind has lost a giant. Professor Stephen Hawking, the galaxy’s best-known scientist and most unreal cultural icon, died on March 14 at his Cambridge home. He was one of the most influential physicists of Hawking's age, blessed with the greatest imagination. He wrote the best-selling cosmological educational work of all time, which became a huge success. The gradually overwhelming, paralyzing cruel disease forever tied him to a wheelchair — his mind soaring freely in the infinity of the cosmos. These are just a few paradoxes of Stephen Hawking’s extraordinary life by all standards. Hawking was a stubborn man. He was also humorous and smart, of course, everyone knows that. But from the world watching him from afar, Hawking's radiance hid the most important pillar of his genius, his deep determination. He was determined that his illness could never stop him. It was this determination that drove him, sometimes dancing on the nerves of his colleagues, as he wrote and rewrote his books for years to make them faithfully reflect the elegance of the universe in a way that is accessible to all. If we want to learn something from Hawking, it doesn’t necessarily have to be about black holes or the origin of the universe, but it’s good to learn that a little stubbornness can be very helpful at times.