In this endlessly engaging volume, biologist Lewis Wolpert lets readers sit in as he talks with 23 of the world's leading scientists. What is day-to-day life like for a scientist? How have they hit upon their most important discoveries? What is the nature of scientific creativity? Here, in this stimulating series of conversations, such eminent scientists as Murray Gell-Man, Jared Diamond, Gerald Edelman, Richard Lewontin, Roald Hoffman, and Carlo Rubbia talk candidly about their backgrounds, their careers, the people who have influenced or inspired them, and their most significant findings. We learn, for instance, how being an outsider or an "innocent" can play an invaluable role in overcoming conventional barriers to a new understanding. Indeed, even being a little crazy seems to help. As Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow says, "if you would simply take all the kookiest ideas of the early 1970s and put them together, you would have made for yourself the theory which is, in fact, the correct theory of nature." These conversations brim with insights into the minds of some of the great men and women of modern science. They offer as well an illuminating glimpse into the nature of scientific discovery.

1 Passionate Minds IN TWO MINDS 2 Blemished Heroes 3 Tapeworm Quadrilles 4 Worlds Apart 5 Scaling the Heights 6 Clinical Science 7 Swimming with the Tide AGAINST THE GRAIN 8 Freeing the Mind 9 Gardens of the Mind 10 Not a Company Man 11 Not all in the Genes 12 In Agreement with Nature 13 Daydreaming Molecules 14 Going into the Dark 15 Hole in One 16 Ways of Seeing 17 Three Quarks for Muster Mark 18 The Weirdest of Fancies 19 Directly to the Heart REFLECTIONS 20 Other Minds 21 Asking Nature 22 A Very Tidy Desk 23 Of Mice and Mothers 24 A Family Affair

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