Lawrence Krauss, a renowned theoretical physicist, is director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications and nine books, including the international bestsellers, A Universe from Nothing and The Physics of Star Trek. The recipient of numerous awards, Krauss is a regular columnist for newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker, and he appears frequently on radio, television, and in feature films. Krauss lives in Portland, Oregon, and Tempe, Arizona
"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"
Praise for A Universe From Nothing "Lively and humorous as well as
informative... As compelling as it is intriguing."-- "Publishers
Weekly"
"Reality is 'weird, wild, and counterintuitive' in this engaging
scientific adventure from the author of A Universe from
Nothing."
-- "Goodreads"
"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 (starred review)"
"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
"As Bard of the Universe, physicist Lawrence Krauss may be uniquely
qualified to give us the Greatest Story Ever Told -- 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
"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.
"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
"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
"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
"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 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
"History of science with an edge -- humorous, personal, passionate,
yet intellectually serious and authoritative."--Frank Wilczek,
Nobel Laureate, Physics
"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
"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
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