Is it just a coincidence that smartest person (stephen hawking) is disabled, or is it because of his inability to interact with the physical world that he's able to focus on the transcendent abstractions of theoretical physics? Either way, he'd probably be a top notch physicist, but how much less would he have contributed to our understanding of the universe if he'd been able to lead a more normal life?
2006-08-12 20:36:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I'm certain that his illness has made him more patient, but as far as helping him with his brilliance, that's coming from an area of the brain that would've been just as smart anyhow.
Understand that he's not the only person in the world with Lou Gherig's disease, and I'm quite certain that most of them don't get notoriety because they don't have his brainpower.
What makes him unique among geniuses is that he's capable of great things despite his disability.
2006-08-12 20:43:19 · answer #1 · answered by Yah00_goddess 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was just his bad luck to get zapped by Lou Gherig's disease. His brain was not affected, so, whether he had the disease or not has nothing to do with anything else, and his brain would be just as productive. What coincidence and his inability to interact with the physical world have to do with his disease or his brain is beyond me. There is a vast difference between smart and intelligence. You don't require intelligence to be smart, but being smart doesn't make you intelligent. Go well and God Bless!
2006-08-13 03:49:25 · answer #2 · answered by Scabius Fretful 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would have been as smart if not more, if he did'nt have the disease. As far as I know, diseases have little to do with increasing intellectual ability. There have been many physicists who were physically fit and still accomplished great things. I think its their passion that drives them.
2006-08-13 04:40:01 · answer #3 · answered by ABC X 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd imagine his disability would give him more time to himself to think, and would be a motivating factor to excel (compensatorily).
No one can tell for sure, of course, what possibilities became open, or closed, for him simply due to the disease he has. Perhaps he could have been greater, or happier, perhaps less so. l
2006-08-13 03:51:15 · answer #4 · answered by ELI 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If memory serves, Dr. Hawking was brilliant well before the disease struck him.
2006-08-13 03:42:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think It Is Irrelevant. Disability does not contribute to talent. It may help to concentrate more on other senses though.
2006-08-15 06:53:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a professor or religion once told me if st paul had been six ft talland had a wife and two kids you would never have heard of christianity
2006-08-13 04:29:18 · answer #7 · answered by titanbooboo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he was born wit his IQ It doesnt have to do anything with his decease.
2006-08-13 03:42:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋