Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-263) and index.
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Prologue: The Lure of Numbers -- I. The Microworld. 1. Lord Kelvin's Declaration. 2. Beyond Common Sense. 3. The Last Contradiction. 4. Botany -- II. The Macroworld. 5. The Expanding Universe. 6. Grand Ideas. 7. Dark Secrets -- III. The Whole World. 8. March of the Superlatives. 9. The New Heat Death.
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History of the attempts to find a "theory of everything" that also argues that such a theory will never be found.