Name: The Grand Design
ISBN: 9780553805376

Leonard Mlodinow

Stephen Hawking

The best-selling author of A Brief History of Time presents a new study of the cosmos that will blow peoples' minds, presented in clear, concise language this is easy to understand.

The Grand Design

I've read his other book "A Brief History of Time" This one doesn't have as much science as that one, because this one read more like a philosophy than science. But, what "The Grand Design" does is it basically told you to keep your creativity and curiosity sharp, as it is as important if not more than empirical thinking.

I like to think that this is a love letter to science itself.

catto fishu

I've read his other book "A Brief History of Time" This one doesn't have as much science as that one, because this one read more like a philosophy than science. But, what "The Grand Design" does is it basically told you to keep your creativity and curiosity sharp, as it is as important if not more than empirical thinking.

I like to think that this is a love letter to science itself.

Dimitris Papastergiou

I wanted to hate this. Really. I just wanted to be like "cmon.. shut up with the multiverse and all that shit. I'm reading all about that every day on DC and Marvel comics.." 

But nope. I didn't hate this. And you couldn't unless you're a hippie or something. *goddamn hippies* 
Now I'm trying to make YOU hate ME. Can you see it?

Anyway, there's no doubt that Hawking's a acknowledged physicist and he knows his shit. Now, I don't really think this book is *his* voice/thoughts 100%... but of course he'd agree with everything in it, unless he wanted a quick buck or something. 

The thing that irritates me the most with books like that is that everything could be proven with science and yet, there's so so so so SO many theoretical shit and would've beens and could've beens and all that imaginative shit that make me doubt many of that. Assuming shit is not proof. 

What I WOULD love to see is for a book like that, that would have added inside a creationist to answer and debate all that stuff. And yet, I do agree with most of the stuff they say, in this one and on many other books and essays or whatever.

I totally agree how most of things work, but I can't agree on every little bit of detail that how the universe was created because you, me, or Stephen Hawking wasn't motherfucking THERE. I cannot accept an idea as a fact and I won't. 
You weren't there. Me neither. 

I also don't agree with the part that humans have no free will. And you can't say that without being specific, if you specifically tell me in which themes if you will, humans have no free will I may have to agree with you but to generalise it like that and being strict about it, that's a big no no.

Other than that is a great read covering nice topics but a bit too "this is fact, but theoretically."

Varol Aksoy

of bu kitap harika!! kardeşimle felsefe ve bilimi öyle bi tartışabiliyoruz ki keyiften ağzım kulaklarıma varıyor :D süper ilham dolu, beyin olimpiyatı resmen :D

Anthony

Another great piece of work from Mr. Hawking. I think I've grown since I first read some stuff from him so this one was a little easier for me to read. I'd still like to read it a few more times and take notes to really grasp the ideas presented.

When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent 'grand design' of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe is presented in language marked by both brilliance and simplicity. Model dependent realism, the multiverse, the top-down theory of cosmology, and the unified M-theory - all are revealed here. This is the first major work in nearly a decade by one of the world's greatest thinkers. A succinct, startling and lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening some of our most cherished belief systems, The Grand Design is a book that will inform - and provoke - like no other.

Raihan Khan

Four stars just for the scientific and imaginative kick.

Safiya 

I'm terribly deceived...
In short, it hovered above THE Question, how did the Big Bang happen and Why ?
I mean that granted getting to know deep/complicated theories about astrophysics, and the TOE was challenging, but I felt empty in the inside after finishing it, simply because the introduction promised answers, and was put in such a scientifically yet appealing way that I was broken-hearted after closing with no answers...

Jasmine Tania

Romesh Srivastava

The Grand Design

I decided to read this because of the short length and good rating....
...I will take Goodreads' ratings with a pinch of salt with my future books. 

If you have even a mild interest in physics beyond high school, you'll immediately realize that this book offers nothing more. The book seems like a group of ideas put together without proper thought or plan - ironically being very un-grand in its design. It seems less like a description of the design of the universe and more like an update of the beliefs and research of Stephen Hawking.

If you are going to read this book, just don't.