How to Think Like Stephen Hawking by Daniel Smith

Author:Daniel Smith [Smith, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, pdf
Publisher: Michael O'Mara
Published: 2016-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

In later years Hawking lived alone and employed a housekeeper to look after his domestic affairs. But he built bridges with the family from his first marriage and had a much calmer and more settled private life. This part of his life was not always a happy one and his conduct sometimes hurt those closest to him. While he achieved so much, his loved ones were sometimes required to make extraordinary sacrifices for him. Nonetheless, there is something admirable about the way in which Hawking – whose physical impediments were so oppressive and whose name is so widely associated with reason and rationality – allowed passion (with all its positive and negative connotations) to weave itself through the fabric of his life.

When Hawking was asked (as he regularly was by interviewers) if there was any mystery that continued to baffle him, his go-to answer was ‘women’. They were, he confided to New Scientist in 2012, the subject he spends most time thinking about. While Hawking will live on as a giant of science, it is comforting to know that an intellect as sophisticated as his required the same sort of emotional nourishment as the rest of us. That he was as prone to making missteps in his relationships as anyone else suggests a human frailty that too often goes unacknowledged.

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