Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One -- 1. Newton Gets It Completely Wrong -- 2. I Believe -- Part Two -- 3. Thomas Aquinas versus Neil Armstrong -- 4. The Second Law -- 5. Predicting Catastrophe -- 6. From Newton to De Sade: The Partial Triumph of Reason -- 7. From Rousseau to Blake: The Revolt against Reason -- Part Three -- 8. Lodestone, Amber, and Lightning -- 9. Belief and Action -- Part Four -- 10. The Demise of Alchemy -- 11. The Nineteenth Century -- 12. The Material Trinity: The Atom -- 13. The Stuff of Existence -- 14. Scipio's Dream -- Part Five -- 15. Making Waves -- 16. The Ubiquity of Motion -- 17. Energy -- 18. Entropy: Intimations of Mortality -- 19. Chaos -- Part Six -- 20. The Slow Birth of Biology -- 21. In a Monastery Garden -- 22. Evolution -- 23. The Descent of Man -- 24. The Gene Machine -- 25. The Lords of Nature? -- 26. Life: The Molecular Battle -- 27. The Origin of Life? Take Your Choice -- Part Seven -- 28. The Inexplicable Quantum -- 29. New Ways of Thinking -- 30. The Land of Paradox -- 31. The Elementary Particles -- Part Eight -- 32. Relativity -- 33. Cosmology -- 34. The Cosmos and Peeping Tom -- 35. The Impossibility of Creation -- Part Nine -- 36. The Tree of Death -- 37. "What the Devil Does It All Mean?" -- Part Ten -- 38. The Future -- Annotated Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.