
Stephen Hawking Interview
Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 @ 20:53:35 UTC Topic: Science
Interview
Return of the time lord
Stephen
Hawking can only communicate by a twitch in his right cheek, yet his
attempt to explain the universe to ordinary people has made him the
world's most famous living scientist. His 1988 book, A Brief History of
Time, clung to the bestseller lists for 237 weeks. It sold one copy for
every 750 people on earth - even if they didn't all read it - and
earned him cameos in cult shows such as the Simpsons and Star Trek. In
a rare interview he talks to Emma Brockes about disability, why women
can't read maps and thinking in 11 dimensions
Tuesday September 27, 2005
The Guardian
Stephen
Hawking and I get off to a bad start when the questions I send him
ahead of the interview are returned the next day with a note: "I want
shorter, better focused, numbered questions, not a stream of
consciousness." A man for whom it takes 20 minutes to express a single
thought, who, since the age of 21, has been told he is living on
borrowed time is, of course, allowed to be curt. But if his success
tells us anything, it is the folly of reading him solely through his
condition. His tone might as easily be a sign of geekiness or
superiority or intolerance of non-scientists. I re-send the questions,
stripped of extraneous detail, and repair to Cambridge to meet him.
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Read the whole article here:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/scienceandnature/story/0,6000,1579384,00.html?gusrc=rss
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