Women a mystery to Stephen Hawking

LONDON – The biggest mystery in the universe perplexing one of the world’s best known scientists is – women.

When New Scientist magazine asked ‘Brief History of Time’ author Stephen Hawking what he thinks about most, the Cambridge University professor renowned for unravelling some of the most complex questions in modern physics answered: ‘Women. They are a complete mystery.’The wheelchair-bound Hawking, who only recently retired from a post once held by Isaac Newton, talked to the magazine in the run-up to celebrations for his 70th birthday yesterday about his biggest scientific blunder and his hopes for modern science. – Nampa-Reuters

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