Is science at an end? Will we soon have discovered everything that can be discovered? From the vantage point of a career in science spanning nearly 50 years, Sir John Maddox argues that, on the contrary, scientific knowledge is just at the beginning.
Maddox leads us lucidly through a diverse range of fields to show what these questions are. How did the universe begin? How did life originate? How does the mind work and what is consciousness? And is mathematics, until now the scientist's all-purpose tool, adequate for the demanding enquiries from which these long-elusive answers will emerge?
