Stephen Hawking — "In the proof stage, I nearly cut that last sentence of the book. Had I done so, …"
In the proof stage, I nearly cut that last sentence of the book. Had I done so, the sales might have been halved.
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Referring to the last sentence of 'A Brief History of Time' ('Then we would know the mind of God')
Date: Approx. 1988 (publication year of A Brief History of Time)
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