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“I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.”

Stills Conditions Taught Disease Pity Motor Neurons

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.”

Years Two Given Half Disease Years Ago Thirty Precise Motor Thirty Years Half A Year

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.”

Years Kind Two Three Common Disease Three Years Motor Neurons

Author:Stephen Hawking

“You probably think Stephen Hawking is in that wheelchair because of a motor neuron disease. But if you got as much barely-legal student poontang as The Hawkster, you'd be in a wheelchair too.”

Ifs Thinking Sex Students Disease Motor Neurons Wheelchairs

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“The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.”

Years Two Three Disease Doctors Als Three Years Kill Me Motor Doctor Who Neurons

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.”