Stephen Hawking Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

  Stephen Hawking

  Book, Writing, Equations

  A Brief History of Time acknowledgments (1988)

• I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

  Stephen Hawking

  Sex, Book, Science

  "The Illustrated A Brief History of Time". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1996.

• The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

  Stephen Hawking

  Book, Law, Lessons

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

• I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Book, 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Book, Scare, Half

• 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.]

  Stephen Hawking

  Sex, Book, Physics

• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Book, Law, Two

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy”, p.397, Running Press

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Book, Firsts, Found

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