“It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." Inside the shell of his increasingly useless body was a razor-sharp mind, fascinated by the nature of the Universe, how it was formed and how it might end. Stephen William Hawking, though, was far from normal.
“I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many." “I am quite often asked: how do you feel about having ALS?" he once wrote. Remarkably, Hawking defied predictions he would only live for a few years, overcoming its debilitating effects on his mobility and speech that left him paralysed and able to communicate only via a computer speech synthesiser. Most of his life was spent in a wheelchair crippled by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a form of motor neurone disease that attacks the nerves controlling voluntary movement.
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