Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations

Werner Heisenberg

Fundamental physics caresses us on the pages of this book like a cat - warm, cozy, at home. Philosophers of the past speak to us as peers and old friends, so that we understand them without tension. Difficult unanswered questions enter our minds through the living story of life - easily and naturally. This is an amazing story about the change in the whole picture of the world, given in the portraits of people who made this shift, in the touches of that time, in the sketches of that era. An era permeated with the spirit of innovation, the charm that the true essence of things is about to be revealed. And we somehow gradually, imperceptibly for ourselves, suddenly feel like interlocutors, co-workers, accomplices in events. We emerge from this adventure with a mind that is more sublime and sophisticated, and with a bright faith in human genius and a happy fate.

We owe all this to the brilliant Werner Heisenberg - equally brilliant in terms of theoretical physics, acute philosophical insight and magnificent style of literary writing.