Day speciality of January 8.



British cosmologist Stephen William Hawking was born in England on Jan. 8

What Hawking overcame, and what he went on to accomplish is beyond extraordinary and completely inspiring. His refusal to give up his intellectual pursuits in spite of his condition, is the personification of persistence. "However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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