Hawking went to Cambridge University as a graduate student after graduating from Oxford University. At this time, he was diagnosed with "Lugar's disease" and soon became completely paralyzed. In 1985, Hawking underwent tracheal surgery for pneumonia. Since then, he has been unable to speak at all, relying on a small dialogue machine and a speech synthesizer installed in a wheelchair to talk to people. Reading a book must rely on a page-turning machine. When reading a document, you need to ask someone to spread every page on a big table, but then he drives a wheelchair to read page by page like a silkworm eating mulberry leaves ... < P > But Hawking will not give up his desire for learning because of a small illness. It is in this incredible difficulty that ordinary people become a world-recognized giant in gravitational physics. Hawking held the post of Lucson Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge University. His black hole evaporation theory and quantum cosmology not only shocked the natural science, but also had a far-reaching impact on philosophy and religion. Hawking also published "A Brief History of Time" in April 1988, which has distributed 5.5 million copies in 33 languages. Nowadays, in the West, people who claim to be educated will be looked down upon if they have not read this book.
1. Wang Xizhi and "Mo Chi"
Wang Xizhi was a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He kept practicing calligraphy every day, and then washed his pen in a pond near his home. Day after day, the whole pond was dyed black like ink. So people called this pond "Mo Chi", also known as "Xiyan Lake" and "pen washing pool". Leonardo da Vinci studied sketching attentively, and after a long period of hard and diligent artistic practice, he finally created many immortal famous paintings.
3. Sima Qian began to write Historical Records at the age of 42 and finished it at the age of 6, which lasted 18 years. If he collected historical materials and interviewed on the spot after he was 2 years old, it took him 4 years.
4. Genius comes from diligence. Edison had more than 1, inventions in his life. In order to invent the electric light, he read a lot of materials, and there were more than 4, pages in his notes. He experimented with thousands of substances and made tens of thousands of experiments before he invented the electric light.
Achievements and sweat
① Wang Xianzhi, a famous calligrapher in Jin Dynasty, used up 18 jars of water to write, and finally became a master of calligraphy.
② Li Shizhen spent 31 years. He wrote tens of millions of notes, traveled to seven provinces, and collected thousands of prescriptions. In order to understand the detoxification effect of some herbs, he swallowed some violent poisons, and finally wrote the brilliant masterpiece of China's medicine-Compendium of Materia Medica.
③ Marx wrote Das Kapital, which took him 4 years.
④ British biologist Darwin spent 2 years studying evolution.