A very readable historical popular science account with anecdotes from physicists and physics from around the time of the Curies onwards to quarks, Fred Hoyle and multiple realities. Not bad, but disappointingly, one find no attempt to delve into equations and deeper mathematical insight. In the end of the book biologist Peter Medawar is quoted from "The limites of science" where he claims many questions are just not scientific such as "how did everything begin?" and "what is the point of life?" Is this really so? I am not so sure. ( )