Stephen Hawking Book Quotations

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 want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

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.

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.]