Hawking's book dealt with themes that bothered the cosmic physics community 20 years ago. Now cosmic scientists wrestle with different questions. Einstein once said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe was that it was comprehensible. Steven Weinberg, the author of a brilliant but much earlier history of time called The First Three Minutes, put the same thought another way: the more the universe seemed comprehensible, he said, the more it also seemed pointless. Hawking's gift to the reading world was to spell out the same big and hugely puzzling questions, in words that ended with a note of hope.

- review of A Briefer History of Time

Also, today I learned that my flute teacher has lines of Sappho (in French) engraved on his flute. "I carved my verses in air..."
and that one fragment that John highlighted and liked so much:
"And in time to come, I say to you,
someone will remember us"

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [6:31 PM]

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