Summary of Stephen Hawking's Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Excerpt From Summary of Stephen Hawking's Brief Answers to the Big Questions



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The author, a physicist, believes that real science is not only not difficult to understand, but also extremely interesting to read. He believes that the key to understanding the universe is understanding how we function as a global community.



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Stephen Hawking, the author, was born on January 8, 1942. He grew up in England during World War II, when the country was under a strict rationing regime. His parents wanted him to go to an elite university, like Oxford or Cambridge, but he ended up going to University College, Oxford, because it had no mathematics professor.