250 95 percent of the
universe is missing
Fritz Zwicky
252 A universal computing
machine
Alan Turing
254 The nature of the
chemical bond
Linus Pauling
260 An awesome power is
locked inside the nucleus
of an atom
J. Robert Oppenheimer
FUNDAMENTAL
BUILDING BLOCKS
1945 –PRESENT
270 We are made of stardust
Fred Hoyle
271 Jumping genes
Barbara McClintock
272 The strange theory of
light and matter
Richard Feynman
274 Life is not a miracle
Harold Urey and
Stanley Miller
276 We wish to suggest
a structure for the salt
of deoxyribose nucleic
acid (DNA)
James Watson and
Francis Crick
284 Everything that can
happen happens
Hugh Everett III
286 A perfect game of
tic-tac-toe
Donald Michie292 The unity of
fundamental forces
Sheldon Glashow294 We are the cause of
global warming
Charles Keeling296 The butterfly effect
Edward Lorenz298 A vacuum is not
exactly nothing
Peter Higgs300 Symbiosis is everywhere
Lynn Margulis302 Quarks come in threes
Murray Gell-Mann308 A theory of everything?
Gabriele Veneziano314 Black holes evaporate
Stephen Hawking315 Earth and all its life forms
make up a single living
organism called Gaia
James Lovelock316 A cloud is made of billows
upon billows
Benoît Mandelbrot317 A quantum model
of computing
Yuri Manin318 Genes can move from
species to species
Michael Syvanen320 The soccer ball can
withstand a lot
of pressure
Harry Kroto322 Insert genes into humans
to cure disease
William French Anderson324 Designing new life forms
on a computer screen
Craig Venter326 A new law of nature
Ian Wilmut327 Worlds beyond the
solar system
Geoffrey Marcy328 DIRECTORY
340 GLOSSARY
344 INDEX
352 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS