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A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking · Recommended by 0 people on 6 podcasts

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“It makes me think maybe I could go read A Brief History of Time, and maybe if Neil were sitting next to me, I'd actually understand A Brief History of Time!”
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“Then, I read 'A Brief History of Time' a while ago, and I have related questions.”
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“and I read it was Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and I read those two books when I was like an eth grade and I was like this is trippy”
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“So, I think when I read Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time, which is going to be 20 years ago, or approximately. Oh, it's almost 40 years old!”
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“Have I ever told you the story of the Stephen Hawking book A Brief History of Time? No, so this is a book where you see it on everybody's shelf, but nobody's actually read this book, right?”
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“Actually, it wasn't just a rumor; I heard it from the person who said it that the original editor for Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' at Cambridge Press warned him that for every equation he put in that book, the available audience would be cut in half.”
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“Well, no, for instance, I've tried to read that book A Brief History of Time... It's not so brilliant.”
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“it was roughly the same time Stephen Hawking this writing his brief history of time and Hades at some point the book you're talking about the emperor's new mind”
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“like your Weinstein's relativity Stephen Hawking's brief history of time mirror matter Other books like that Carl Sagan his works”
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“so the the I got it from a Stephen Hawking book”

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