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THIS attractive little book is many things at once: a coffee table book, a love letter to science and a stand against scientific illiteracy. Theoretical physicist Sander Bais is interested in the ways in which scientific understanding affects world views. For instance, he explains how the discovery that the Earth鈥檚 surface is a closed sphere rather than an infinite plane suddenly transformed the world into a knowable place, and one with limited resources.

Bais鈥檚 passion for science and his respect for its methods are contagious, even if his musings at times seem random and muddled as he meanders from HIV denial to string theory, from postmodernism to petamachines.

Ultimately, this is a treatise on the unity of knowledge, on the one science 鈥渢hat is slowly taking shape through the work of thousands of scientists spread out over the earth and in time. It is like putting a gigantic jigsaw puzzle together鈥� until every piece falls into place and we get a grand view of the whole.鈥�