Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings

The universe : a biography

The possibility of life : science, imagination, and our quest for kinship in the cosmos

Starry messenger [large print] : cosmic perspectives on civilization

Thorndike Press large print nonfiction

Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.

Starry messenger : cosmic perspectives on civilization

When I was a child I read books

There are places in the world where rules are less important than kindness : and other thoughts on physics, philosophy and the world

Ci sono luoghi al mondo dove più che le regole è importante la gentilezza. English

Aristotle the scientist -- Lolita and the blue icarus -- Newton the alchemist -- Copernicus and Bologna -- My 1977, and that of my friends -- Literature and science: a continuing dialogue -- Dante, Einstein and the three-sphere -- Between certainty and uncertainty: a precious intermediate space -- Bruno de Finetti: uncertainty is not the enemy -- Does science need philosophy? -- The mind of an octopus -- Ideas don't fall from the sky -- The many errors of Einstein -- Some think, O King Hiero, that the grains of sand cannot be counted -- Why does inequality exist? -- Dramatic echoes of ancient wars -- Four questions for politics -- National identity is toxic -- Charles Darwin -- Marie Curie -- The master -- Which science is closer to faith? -- Leopardi and astronomy -- De rerum natura -- Do flying donkeys exist? David Lewis says yes -- We are natural creatures in a natural world -- Emptiness is empty: Nāgārjuna -- Mein Kampf -- Black holes I: the fatal attraction of stars -- Black holes II: the heat of nothingness -- Black holes III: they mystery of the center -- Kip and gravitational waves -- Thank you, Stephen -- Roger Penrose -- Dear baby Jesus -- Certainty and global warming -- Churchill and science -- The infinite divisibility of space -- Ramon Llull: ars magna -- Are we free? -- A stupefying story -- Why I am an atheist -- Hadza -- A day in Africa -- The festive season is over -- This short life feels beautiful to us, now more than ever.