It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
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"I believe that the simplest explanation is that there is no God who created the universe and directed our fate. This leads me to a profound realization: there is probably no heaven and afterlife eithe…"
"I believe that the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws."
"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."
"One day, I hope to have a conversation with an alien."
"I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth."
British theoretical physicist whose Hawking radiation work and A Brief History of Time (1988) brought black-hole physics to a mass audience while he lived with ALS for 55 years. Closely associated with Roger Penrose (his collaborator on singularity theorems) and Carl Sagan (fellow popularizer who wrote Brief History's foreword). For an intellectual contrast, see William Lane Craig, American philosopher of religion — Craig's Kalam cosmological argument depends on the Big Bang requiring a divine first cause; Hawking's no-boundary proposal was specifically designed to remove the moment that would require one — the cleanest cosmology-vs-natural-theology contrast in modern thought.
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Dwelling on misfortune and resentment consumes energy better spent on living fully. Anger and complaint drive people away and accomplish nothing productive. Accept your circumstances, adapt, move forward, and measure success by what you build despite limitations rather than what you lost to them.
Hawking was diagnosed with ALS at 21, given two years to live, yet worked for over five decades, revolutionizing physics. He communicated through a single cheek muscle and synthesized voice yet remained witty and socially engaged. His extraordinary productivity under total paralysis embodied this philosophy completely and authentically.
Hawking worked during the disability rights movement's rise, when the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act passed and societal attitudes toward disabled people were shifting from pity to inclusion. His visible defiance of physical limitation became culturally iconic, making his perspective on acceptance versus resentment especially resonant and widely cited.
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