Sitting in a wheelchair for 40 years, only three fingers will move and the speech and answer can only be achieved through a speech synthesizer. However, his popular science book, a brief history of time, has a myriad of readers around the world.
He's the king of the universe Stephen Hawking.
Fate has been cruel to hawking. In 1963, when he was a graduate student at Cambridge university, he suffered a muscular atrophy of lugali's disease, which was soon paralysed and confined to a wheelchair. In 1985, hawking underwent trachea surgery for pneumonia and was stripped of his ability to speak. 40 years later, the disease has made his body completely deformation: his head is tilted toward the right, is left to lower right shoulder high, her hands tightly and, holding a palm-sized onomatopoeia keyboard and two feet twists in itself. The mouth has been shaped like an S, with a little smile and a grin. Now, that has become his signature image. He can't write, and machine must rely on reading a book, read literature must let a person will split each page on a big desk, and then driven wheelchair like silkworms eat mulberry leaves the page to read.
The doctor had diagnosed the terminally ill hawking for only two years, but he survived and became the world's acknowledged scientific giant in this unimaginably difficult time. Although, his body was not left in a wheelchair, but his mind was flying out of the earth and fly out of the solar system, flying out of the Milky Way, flew to the depths of the universe by billions of light-years away, flew to the mysterious black hole. He imagines, argues, and calculates in his brain. He thought about when the universe began and when it would end. He discovered the vaporization of the black hole and deduced the big bang of the black hole... He also established a very scientific cosmological model. He was chosen to be the youngest member of the royal society, and became a professor of mathematics lectures at the university of lucentis, which is only a big scientist like Newton.
Rather than being worshipped all day, he would rather be alone in thinking about the fate of the universe. The door of his office usually hangs a wooden sign that reads:
"Please keep quiet, the master is sleeping."
That's probably not true. Hawking just doesn't want to be bothered by outsiders. He must have been sitting in this cozy little room with a high ceiling and quietly working in front of the computer for hours. In the two or three plants around him were pictures of his three children. At 4 p.m., he would talk to graduate students with the help of nurses. They drank tea and exchanged ideas about the universe. If a student raises questions about his theory, he will immediately give a grin.
Hawking's charm is not just that he is a legendary physical genius, but also because he is a convincing life. His constant pursuit of scientific spirit and brave and tenacious personality power deeply moved the public.
Once, at the end of the academic report, a young female journalist beat up the pulpit to face at that time, she has lived in a wheelchair for over 30 years of the giants of science, deeply admire, and some compassion and said, "Mr Stephen Hawking, the disease has you forever fixed in a wheelchair, don't you think fate let you lose too much?"
The question was obviously abrupt and sharp, and there was a hush and silence in the lecture hall.
Hawking is still full of quiet smile on his face, he will also move finger, hard to tap the keyboard, so as the synthesizer standard London accent, large projection screen slowly and strikingly shown as follows:
My fingers can still move,
My brain can think;
I have a lifelong dream,
I love and love my family and friends;
Oh, and I have a grateful heart...
The shaking of the heart, the applause thunderous. People flocked to the platform, surrounded by the remarkable scientist, to pay his sincere tribute to him.
在轮椅上坐了40年，全身只有三根手指会动，演讲和答问只能通过语音合成器来实现。然而，他撰写的科普著作《时间简史》在全世界拥有无数的读者。
他就是“宇宙之王”史蒂芬·霍金。
命运对霍金十分残酷。1963年，21岁的霍金在剑桥大学读研究生时，不幸患了会导致肌肉萎缩的卢伽雷氏症，不久就完全瘫痪，被长期禁锢在轮椅上。1985年，霍金又因患肺炎做了穿气管手术，又被彻底剥夺了他说话的功能。40年过去了，疾病已使他的身体彻底变形：他的'头只能朝右边倾斜，肩膀也是左低右高，双手紧紧地并在当中，握着手掌大小的拟声器键盘，两只脚则朝内扭曲着。嘴已经歪成S型，只要略带微笑，马上就会现出“龇牙咧嘴”的样子。现在，这已经成了他的标志性形象。他不能写字，看书必须依赖一种翻书的机器，读文献时必须让人将每一页平摊在一张大办公桌上，然后驱动轮椅如蚕吃桑叶般地逐页阅读。
医生曾诊断身患绝症的霍金只能活两年，但他一直顽强地活了下来，并且正是在这种令人难以想象的艰难中成为世界公认的科学巨人。虽然，他的身体一点也没有离开过轮椅，但是，他的思维却飞出了地球，飞出了太阳系，飞出了银河系，飞到了上百亿光年外的宇宙深处，飞向了神秘莫测的黑洞。他在大脑中想象着，论证着，计算着。他思考着宇宙从什么时候开始，时间有没有尽头。他发现了黑洞的蒸发性，推论出黑洞的大爆炸……他还建立了非常美的科学的宇宙模型。他被选为最年轻的英国皇家学会会员，成为只有像牛顿这样的大科学家才能跻身的卢卡逊数学讲座的教授。
比起整天被人众星捧月般的顶礼膜拜，他宁愿一个人静静地思考宇宙的命运。他的办公室门口通常会挂上一块木牌，上面写着：
“请保持安静，主人正在睡觉。”
那多半不是真的，霍金只是不愿被外人打扰。此时他一定坐在这间有着高高天花板的舒适小屋里，安静地在电脑前工作上好几个小时。周围两三盆植物当中摆放的是他三个孩子的照片。每天下午4点，他会在护士的帮助下与研究生们交谈。他们喝着午茶，交流对宇宙的看法。如果有学生对他的理论提出带有质疑，他立即会给一个咧嘴笑容。
霍金的魅力不仅在于他是一个充满传奇色彩的物理天才，更因为他是一个令人折服的生活强者。他不断求索的科学精神和勇敢顽强的人格力量深深地感动了大众。
有一次，在学术报告结束之际，一位年轻的女记者抢先跃上讲坛，面对这位当时已在轮椅上生活了30多年的科学巨匠，深深景仰之余，又不无悲悯地问：“霍金先生，病魔已将您永远固定在轮椅上，你不认为命运让你失去太多了吗？”
这个问题显然有些唐突和尖锐，报告厅内顿时鸦雀无声，一片静默。
霍金的脸上却依然充满恬静的微笑，他用还能活动的手指，艰难地叩击键盘，于是，随着合成器的标准伦敦音，宽大的投影屏上缓慢而醒目地显示出如下一段文字：
我的手指还能活动，
我的大脑还能思维；
我有终生追求的理想，
有我爱和爱我的亲人和朋友；
对了，我还有一颗感恩的心……
心灵震颤之余，掌声雷动。人们纷纷拥向台前，簇拥着这位非凡的科学家，向他表示由衷的敬意。