My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed Bryson’s explanations of these scientific processes. I’d heard of some of the terms before but I wasn’t exactly sure of what they represented. He seems to humanise them all by placing it all in a context of scale that we can understand. As well as discussing the discoverers of the principals involved, he also focuses on their private lives of how they came to be and looks at some amusing anecdotes of their lives. I did find that my attention began to fade somewhat when I was reading particular chapters but I guess it depends on which fields you’re interested in. Bryson discusses subjects from the simplest cell to the theories of how we came to be and it’s interesting to learn the scientific thinking about these theories, but it’s a shame that he doesn’t offer an opinion on where we go from here. I’m now interested to find out whether any progress has been made in these fields since the book has been published.
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