Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

  1   Our Biotech Future

  2   Writing Nature’s Greatest Book

  3   Rocket Man

  4   The Dream of Scientific Brotherhood

  5   Working for the Revolution

  6   The Question of Global Warming

  7   Struggle for the Islands

  8   Leaping into the Grand Unknown

  9   When Science and Poetry Were Friends

10   What Price Glory?

11   Silent Quantum Genius

12   The Case for Far-Out Possibilities

13   Science on the Rampage

14   How We Know

15   The “Dramatic Picture” of Richard Feynman

16   How to Dispel Your Illusions

17   What Can You Really Know?

18   Oppenheimer: The Shape of Genius

19   How to Be an Underdog, and Win

20   Churchill: Love & the Bomb

21   The Case for Blunders

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