(December 4, 2014 at 2:43 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I saw a biography about like 5 years ago or so, where they interviewed some of the people that went to Oxford with him. He was in some of the highest level astrophysics courses (like...insane theoretical shit that I couldn't even read). Their professor assigned a problem set of ten questions and gave them two weeks to complete it. All of his friends were in the library hours and hours per day and Hawking was apparently super chill about it and didn't bother starting the problem set.
The day it was due, Hawking's friends were all gathered outside the classroom, furiously comparing notes and answers. In the two weeks, their group had only come up with answers to 3 of the questions. According the the anecdotes, Hawking had just started the problem set that morning, and came running down from his dorm room (he still had use of his legs at this point) in a fluster, yelling:
"I need your help fellas! I only managed to get 8 of the 10 finished!"
He seems kinda smart...I guess~
That was in the movie too. ^_^
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