I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.
The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.
I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.
Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers.
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.
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.]
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.