"...heartily recommended as being as fine an example as one can hope to find of expository writing on science. The profiles of the giants of modern science, not to mention the wonderful accounts of earlier titans of physics, certainly make the book a best-buy on the popular science shelf." -NEW SCIENTIST "an eclectic collection of essays...a well written work, as one expect(s) from a writer of Bernsteins caliber; recommended..." -LIBRARY JOURNAL
Good characterisation of famous scientists. I lost interest in the last 70 pages or so because it turned into fiction. Wouldn't recommend buying, but it's an OK read for something I picked up at a second-hand book store.