"Lively and provocative… Mr. Hawking clearly possesses a natural teacher's gifts-easy, good-natured humor and an ability to illustrate highly complex proposition with analogies plucked from daily life." -The New York Times
"Charming and Lucid…(A book of) sunny brilliance". – The New Yorker
"This book marries a child's wonder to a genius intellect. We journey into Hawking's universe while marvelling at his mind." -The Sunday Times (London)
"He can explain the complexities of cosmological physics with an engaging combination of clarity and wit… His is a brain of extraordinary power." -The New York Review Books