"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." "I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we ...

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Written for a non-specialist audience, Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is the very definition of a smash-hit science book. It may be a joke (repeated by Hawking himself in h2g2) that it’s ...

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. He has come to be thought of as the greatest mind in physics since Albert Einstein. With similar interests -- discovering the ...

Stephen Hawking was 21 years old when he ... and the author of the bestselling book "A Brief History of Time." Here are 15 quotes showing Hawking's approach to science and to life in general.