
To Explain the World
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Steven Weinberg, the world's preeminent physicist, provides a masterful journey through humankind's scientific coming of age. This is a story that not only traces our deep insights into nature's workings but reveals how we came to grasp the very meaning of scientific insight. With its refreshing candor and lyrical prose, To Explain the World is a delightful celebration of our passionate drive for understanding -- Brian Greene It would be putting it mildly to say that Weinberg triumphantly lives up to what it says on the Nobel tin: a true intellectual as well as a brilliant theoretical physicist -- Richard Dawkins Steven Weinberg is one of the most highly accomplished and respected scientists in the world. But even among this elite group he holds a unique position as a scientist-scholar and a writer of unparalleled clarity. Weinberg has become a role model for the rest of us who attempt to communicate to the broader public. No one writing on matters of science or of science and society has more wisdom to impart, nor can they impart it better than Weinberg -- Lawrence Krauss Weinberg has reached the pinnacle of scientific success - the Nobel Prize - he writes clearly and with confidence, imbuing the reader with an irresistible sense that one is in the hands of a master physicist at play * Sunday Times * Of all top-class theoretical physicists no one, apart from Freeman Dyson, writes with the same combination of authority and grace -- Graham Farmelo * Times Higher Education * An absolute delight. -- Cait MacPhee * Times Higher Education * A refreshing contrast to other tomes on the topic... Weinberg reminds us to be humble not only about what we know, but how we know it. -- Nicola Davis * The Guardian * In this masterful, entertainingly 'irreverent' book, [Weinberg] explains the rise of science from ancient Greeks to modern geeks in terms that his students and the rest of us will understand. -- Iain Finlayson * The Times * An enlightening read that does not demand specialist knowledge to enjoy. -- Robert Kingston * Sunday Times *More details
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