"So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future." - Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions | Stephen Hawking

This October will see the publication of Brief Answers to the Big Questions, the final book by Stephen Hawking, as introduced here by Lucy Hawking. The book, which our father was working on at the time of his death, is drawn from his extraordinary personal archive and comprises his final thoughts on the universe’s biggest questions – it has been completed in collaboration with his academic colleagues, his family and the Stephen Hawking Estate, and a percentage of the royalties will go to charity