Quotes from book
A Briefer History of Time

A Briefer History of Time
Stephen Hawking

A Briefer History of Time is a 2005 popular-science book by the English physicist Stephen Hawking and the American physicist Leonard Mlodinow.

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“What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.”

Stephen Hawking book A Briefer History of Time

Source: A Briefer History of Time

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