How Did It All Begin?

By (author) Stephen Hawking
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Brief Answers, Big Questions: four new books celebrating the genius of Stephen Hawking''s brilliant posthumous work, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, with each one offering two electrifying essays from one of the greatest minds of our age.
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''Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet''

How did it all begin?

Is there a God?

Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. In How Did It All Begin? the world famous cosmologist and bestselling author of A Brief History of Time explores the fundamental questions of our existence.

''A brilliant mind'' Daily Telegraph


Brief Answers, Big Questions: this stunning paperback series offers electrifying essays from one of the greatest minds of our age, taken from the original text of the No. 1 bestselling Brief Answers to the Big Questions.

Biographical note
STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world''s greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller and the Sunday Times bestseller Brief Answers to the Big Questions. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universes, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design and Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures. He died on 14 March, 2018.
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Praise for Brief Answers to the Big Questions

A beautiful book from a brilliant mind - Daily Telegraph

Almost everything in Brief Answers is effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty - Guardian

The best, most mind-bending sort of physics: black holes, time travel, the origins of the universe - The Times

It is that ultra-distinctive voice (modest, profound, sometimes very funny) that knits this book together - Sunday Times