Super genius Stephen Hawking was a lazy kid who “didn’t study much,” his dad said in a new biography.
“We are a little worried at the way Stephen is turning out. He hangs round the house with little initiative and does not study much,” father Frank Hawking wrote in his diaries in 1961, according to the upcoming book “Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work.”
Frank went on to write that his wife Isobel, Stephen’s mom, told him “he has an inferiority complex to me (he has no need to) and he has lost faith in physics at Oxford, thinking it is inferior to arts. This is a great pity if so,” according to an excerpt in The Guardian.
Two years later, at age 21, Hawking was diagnosed with ALS and told he had two years to live.
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