Brief Answers to the Big Questions

People have always sought answers to the big questions:

Does God Exist? Where Did We Come From? How Did Everything Begin? Is There Intelligent Life Beyond Us in the Universe? Is Time Travel Possible? Will Artificial Intelligence Surpass Us? What is the meaning and design behind everything? Explanations from the past based on creation now seem much less appropriate and reliable. These explanations have been replaced by various things that we can only call superstitions, ranging from New Age to Star Trek. However, real science can be far stranger and more satisfying than science fiction. Today, science has begun to find answers to all these questions. This book, a collection of Hawking's last writings before his death, consists of the answers given to the big questions by one of the most important minds in history.

With a foreword by Eddie Redmayne, who won an Oscar for his performance in The Theory of Everything, an introduction by Nobel laureate scientist Kip Thorne, and an afterword by Hawking's daughter Lucy, Brief Answers to the Big Questions is a genius's final message to the world.

“Hawking is a symbol of the increasing power of the human mind.”

- The Washington Post

“Hawking's last message to readers is that there is hope for humanity.”

- CNN

“Brief Answers to the Big Questions offers a remarkably clear and understandable look at the future of science and humanity.”

- The Wall Street Journal

“This extraordinary book is the last glimmer of a magnificent star.”

- The Telegraph