More Often Than Politicians, But Not As

There Is A Fundamental Difference Between Religion, Which Is Based On Authority, [and] Science, Which Is Based On Observation And Reason. Science Will Win Because It Works.

I Have Sold More Books On Physics Than Madonna Has On Sex. [hawking Adopted This Statement From A Remark Made To Him By His Former Post-doc, Nathan Myhrvold.]

All Of My Life, I Have Been Fascinated By The Big Questions That Face Us, And Have Tried To Find Scientific Answers To Them. If, Like Me, You Have Looked At The Stars, And Tried To Make Sense Of What You See, You Too Have Started To Wonder What Makes The Universe Exist.

The World Has Changed Far More In The Past 100 Years Than In Any Other Century In History. The Reason Is Not Political Or Economic But Technological-technologies That Flowed Directly From Advances In Basic Science. Clearly, No Scientist Better Represents Those Advances Than Albert Einstein: Time's Person Of The Century.

When I Was Young, Stephen Hawking Wasn't The World's Most Famous Physicist. The Fame Didn't Arrive Until The Publication Of "a Brief History Of Time," By Which Time I Was In My Late Teens. When I Was A Child, He Was Well Known Among Physicists, But They Are A Fairly Select, Serious Bunch, Not Much Given To Celebrity Idolizing.