Facing Up by Steven Weinberg, Harvard, £17.95, ISBN
067400647X
WHEN St John preached that the truth shall make you free, the truths of
theoretical physics were not what he had in mind. Steven Weinberg believes that
the physicist is the model of a modern truth-seeker and that such truths are
liberating. At least they leave you free not to believe in the Bible, or in
comparable myths and superstitions.
What emerges from the 20 or so essays, written over 15 years, is a passionate
commitment to science as a rational enterprise that reveals our true place in
the Universe. It…
