Wilczek’s prose pulses with enthusiasm for its subject.” - Wall Street Journal Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way-bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before.

With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science.

One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world “ Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. Wilczek writes with breathtaking economy and clarity, and his pleasure in his subject is palpable.” - The New York Times Book Review

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