![]() scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.' ![]() Right on the first page of the book, the authors make the astonishing claim that ![]() It soon becomes evident that Professor Hawking and Mr Mlodinow regard a philosophical problem as something you knock off over a quick cup of tea after you have run out of Sudoku puzzles.' 'There are actually rather a lot of questions that are more subtle than the authors think. As soon as you move from the scientific specialism of the authors into questions of philosophy or history, it is just shallow. His thinking was shallow, and he often did not understand the questions, let alone the answers. When I was in the sixth form, I had a class-mate who was very arrogant: he had an opinion about everything, and an answer to every question. ![]()
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