Darwin Meets Einstein -- Contents -- The temple of science -- Diary of a physicist -- Dear Zhong-lie -- Alchemy -- Worthwhile -- Scientific nomads -- Superheated Ice -- Managing a discovery -- Spy in the lab -- B. Manfred Ullrich -- Diary of a fusionist -- Roger -- Solar cells -- Particle accelerators -- The Silicon Age -- The discoverer and the inventor -- Jaap was right -- Moore's law in Bilthoven -- Teller in the Netherlands -- The scientific life -- Shopping -- Fundamental research on matter -- A vacuum is not nothing -- Father of the atom -- Who influenced Bohr? -- Hooray for the electron -- Decadence -- Physics and faith -- Theories of everything -- A mind's eye -- The mother of all knowledge -- A matter of civilization -- Why science? -- Spinoza's God -- Science through the looking glass ofliterature -- Sir Charles -- Darwin meets Einstein.