Lawrence Krauss, a renowned theoretical physicist, is the president of The Origins Project Foundation and host of the Origins Podcast. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications and nine books—including the bestselling The Physics of Star Trek—and the recipient of numerous international awards for his research and writing. Hailed by Scientific American as a “rare scientific public intellectual,” he is also a regular columnist for newspapers and magazines and appears frequently on radio and television.
“I loved the fight scenes and the sex scenes were excellent.”
*Eric Idle*
'In the span of a century, physics progressed from skepticism that
atoms were real to equations so precise we can predict properties
of subatomic particles to the tenth decimal place. Lawrence Krauss
rightly places this achievement among the greatest of all stories,
and his book—at once engaging, poetic and scholarly—tells the story
with a scientist’s penetrating insight and a writer’s masterly
craft.'
*Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe, and Director, Center
for Theoretical Physics, Columbia University*
"Unlike some very clever scientists, Lawrence Krauss is not content
to bask on the Mount Olympus of modern physics. A great
educator as well as a great physicist, he wants to pull others up
the rarefied heights to join him. But unlike some science
educators, he doesn’t dumb down. In Einstein’s words, he makes it
'as simple as possible but no simpler.'"
*Richard Dawkins, author of The Magic of Reality*
“In every debate I’ve done with theologians and religious believers
their knock-out final argument always comes in the form of two
questions: Why is there something rather than nothing? and Why are
we here? The presumption is that if science provides no answers
then there must be a God. But God or no, we still want answers. In
A Universe From Nothing Lawrence Krauss, one of the biggest
thinkers of our time, addressed the first question with verve, and
in The Greatest Story Ever Told he tackles the second with
elegance. Both volumes should be placed in hotel rooms across
America, in the drawer next to the Gideon Bible."
*Michael Shermer, Publisher Skeptic magazine, columnist Scientific
American, Presidential Fellow Chapman University, author The Moral
Arc.*
"A Homeric tale of science, history, and philosophy revealing
how we learned so much about the universe and its tiniest
parts."
*Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Laureate, 1979 in physics*
“The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far ranges from Galileo to the LHC
and beyond. It's accessible, illuminating, and surprising—an ideal
guide for anyone interested in understanding our accidental
universe.”
*Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth
Extinction*
“College students, hippies, squares, Christians, Muslims,
democrats, republicans, libertarians, theists, even atheists—all of
us—sit around BS-ing like: ‘So, how did all this, I mean
everything, all of us, the whole universe, you know, man,
everything, how did this all get here?’ While we were doing that,
Lawrence Krauss and people like him were doing the work to figure
it out. Then Krauss wrote this great book about
it. ‘Wow, man, you mean, like we’re getting closer to really
knowing? I guess we’ll have to go back to talking about politics
and sex.’”
*Penn Jillette, author of Presto!*
“Discovering the bedrock nature of physical reality ranks as one of
humanity’s greatest collective achievements. This book gives a fine
account of the main ideas and how they emerged. Krauss is himself
close to the field, and can offer insights into the personalities
who have led the key advances. A practiced and skilled writer, he
succeeds in making the physics ‘as simple as possible but no
simpler.’ I don’t know a better book on this subject.”
*Martin Rees, author of Just Six Numbers*
“It is an exhilarating experience to be led through this
fascinating story, from Galileo to the Standard Model and the Higgs
boson and beyond, with lucid detail and insight, illuminating
vividly not only the achievements themselves but also the joy of
creative thought and discovery, enriched with vignettes of the
remarkable individuals who paved the way. It amply
demonstrates that the discovery that ‘nature really follows the
simple and elegant rules intuited by the 20th- and 21st-century
versions of Plato’s philosophers’ is one of the most astonishing
achievements of the human intellect.”
*Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics
(Emeritus), MIT*
“Charming... Krauss has written an account with sweep and
verve that shows the full development of our ideas about the makeup
of the world around us... A great romp.”
*Walter Gilbert, Nobel Award, Chemistry, 1980*
“History of science with an edge—humorous, personal, passionate,
yet intellectually serious and authoritative.”
*Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, Physics*
"Krauss beautifully explains how our refusal to believe that there
are unknowable cosmic truths has rewarded humanity with brilliantly
precise answers to puzzles previously obscured by the fog of
dogmatic assurance… The scope of this book is truly
impressive."
*Science Magazine*
"A masterful blend of history, modern physics, and cosmic
perspective that empowers the reader to not only embrace our
understanding of the universe, but also revel in what remains to be
discovered."
*Neil deGrasse Tyson, American Museum of Natural History*
"A rich, definitely not-dumbed-down history of physics...
An admirable complement to the author's previous book and
equally satisfying for those willing to read carefully."
*Kirkus Reviews*
"This truly is the greatest story: how the universe
arose, what it’s made of, how it works. Krauss is a warm and
authoritative guide to what future generations will surely say
is one of our species’ greatest accomplishments."
*Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard
University, and author of The Language Instinct and The Blank
Slate*
"In confident...prose, Krauss tells a story that both celebrates
and explores science. Through it, he reminds readers why scientists
build such complicated machinery and push the boundaries of the
quantum world when nothing makes sense: “For no more practical
reason than to celebrate and explore the beauty of nature.”"
*Publishers Weekly*
"The story of reality—or at least as we understand it—this book is
a testament to perseverance, a riveting account of dogged
scientific effort to comprehend the fundamental forces of nature.
Krauss (director, Origins Project, Arizona State Univ.; Fear
of Physics) has a knack for making complex concepts accessible to
lay readers who are willing to put in time and energy… A must-read
for anyone who enjoyed Krauss’s previous titles, especially A
Universe from Nothing, and those interested in delving into the
history of science."
*Library Journal*
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