• Steven Weinberg is Winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics

It would be putting it mildly to say that Weinberg triumphantly lives up to what it says on the Nobel tin: a true intellectual as well as a brilliant theoretical physicist.
   --Richard Dawkins

An excellent collection from an extraordinary physicist. Weinberg is a deep thinker and a graceful writer.
   --Ken Ford, author of The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone

This is a great collection of essays. Steven Weinberg is one of the greatest contemporary physicists. He is also a scholar in a broad sense, a good scholar. Add to this, he writes well.
   --John S. Rigden, author of Einstein 1905

Steven Weinberg has become a role model for the rest of us who attempt to communicate to the broader public. No one writing on matters of science or of science and society has more wisdom to impart, nor can they impart it better than Weinberg. Scientists and lay people alike will find this remarkable collection both thought provoking and thoroughly engaging.
   --Lawrence M. Krauss, Foundation Professor and Director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, and the author of The Physics of Star Trek, and most recently, Hiding in the Mirror, the Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions.

Steven Weinberg is one of the most highly accomplished and respected scientists in the world. But even among this elite group he holds a unique position as a scientist-scholar and a writer of unparalleled clarity. He has become a role model for the rest of us who attempt to communicate to the broader public. As this second collection of fascinating essays makes manifest, no one writing on matters of science or of science and society has more wisdom to impart, nor can they impart it better than Weinberg. Scientists and lay people alike will find this remarkable collection both thought provoking and thoroughly engaging.
   --Lawrence M. Krauss, Foundation Professor and Director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, and the author of The Physics of Star Trek, and most recently, Hiding in the Mirror, the Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions.

Steven Weinberg is Josey Regental Professor of Science and a member of the physics and astronomy departments at the University of Texas, Austin, and is the author of many books. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 and the National Medal of Science in 1991.

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• Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries