Fascinating'
- Brian Cox Mail on Sunday Books of the Year Where are we? Who are we? Do our beliefs hopes & dreams hold any significance out there in the void? Can human purpose & meaning ever fit into a scientific worldview? Award-winning author Sean Carroll brings his extraordinary intellect to bear on the realms of knowledge the laws of nature & the most profound questions about life death & our place in it all From Darwin & Einstein to the origins of life consciousness & the universe itself Carroll combines cosmos-sprawling science & profound thought in a quest to explain our world Destined to sit alongside the works of our greatest thinkers The Big Picture demonstrates that while our lives may be forever dwarfed by the immensity of the universe they can be redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it & give it meaning