Professor of Physics, Cambridge University

Professor Stephen Hawking, widely known for his bestseller A Brief History of Time, teaches Physics at Cambridge University in England. Hawking suffers from Motor Neurone Disease since the age of 21.

The world's most famous theoretical physicist is almost totally paralyzed, and can only speak by typing text into a predictive-text device, which is considered "vintage" by today's tech standards.

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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

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