“A passionate meditation on Man and Universe.”
—Italo Calvino
“Astonishingly ambitious and wide-ranging.”
—Observer
“An ambitious book which suggests that a new picture of the universe is emerging from the study of thermodynamics, and that this picture will heal the breach between the scientific and the poetic view of man.”
—John Maynard Smith, London Review of Books
“Brilliant, demanding, dazzling.”
—Alvin Toffler
