Super genius Stephen Hawking was a lazy kid who “didn’t study much,” his dad said in a new biography.
“We are a little worried at the way Stephen is turning out. He hangs round the house with little initiative and does not study much,” father Frank Hawking wrote in his diaries in 1961, according to the upcoming book “Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work.”
Frank went on to write that his wife Isobel, Stephen’s mom, told him “he has an inferiority complex to me (he has no need to) and he has lost faith in physics at Oxford, thinking it is inferior to arts. This is a great pity if so,” according to an excerpt in The Guardian.
Two years later, at age 21, Hawking was diagnosed with ALS and told he had two years to live.
He went on to wildly defy both his dad’s and his doctors’ predictions, and lived to become the world’s most renown astrophysicist in the world before dying in 2018, at the age of 76.
He wrote the book “A Brief History of Time,” which was published on Sept. 1, 1988 and sold more than 25 million copies worldwide, achieved legendary status as one of the most celebrated minds of our time.
Hawking was especially known for his mind-blowing work about black holes.
Hawking shared these words in the final paragraph of the book: “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
“And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.
Farmelo said, “Writing that book as been the greatest privilege of my life.”
