Even though Shakespeare references seem to pop up in
nearly every book I read, I honestly did not expect to find one in Stephen W.
Hawking’s
A Brief History Of Time: From
The Big Bang To Black Holes. But there is one. In the chapter titled “The
Origin And Fate Of The Universe,” Hawking writes: “If the universe is indeed
spatially infinite, or if there are infinitely many universes, there would
probably be some large regions somewhere that started out in a smooth and
uniform manner. It is a bit like the well-known horde of monkeys hammering away
on typewriters – most of what they write will be garbage, but very occasionally
by pure chance they will type out one of Shakespeare’s sonnets” (p. 123).
A Brief History Of
Time: From The Big Bang To Black Holes was published in 1988.
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