Listen to what a man says and do the task in your book.0:06
The idea about the book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, was to try and make science exciting to people.0:14
My idea was that science had to be more interesting than it was made out to be to me.0:21
When I was at school in America, science courses, it seems to me, were a bit dull.0:26
In principle, I am very interested in science, but I had never studied the subject.0:33
Obviously, there are two types of people when it comes to learning science at school.0:39
Those who are going to go and have careers in physics and chemistry, and a whole large group of the rest of us who should be coming out of school with at least some understanding of science.0:43
My knowledge of science was extremely elementary.0:54
When I started working on the book, I knew practically nothing.0:57
What I could get out of the research for this book is an extremely superficial understanding of the subject.1:02
I didn't really understand physics anymore than I did when I started working on it.1:08
What I had got out of the exercise, though, was how scientists have gone about finding things out, how they know what they know.1:13
For example, I found it fascinating how a scientist could look at two different formations of rocks and say that one was 250 million years old and that one is 850 million years old.1:21
How do they know that?1:34
Those are the kind of questions that I imagined other people in the same position as me would like to find the answers to.1:36
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