We Are All Stardust
Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

A series of interviews with famous scientists can be surprisingly good reading. Part of Modern Mrs. Darcy's 2018 reading challenge is a book recommended by someone with good taste. This is that book. Translated from German to English, it reads remarkably smoothly, although some of Klein's questions......more

Science defines our lives as never before, yet we know little about those who have come up with so many of the wonders. Klien interviews a couple of dozen about their work, where it's led, & why they chose to study what they did as well as some other matters. It's fairly brief, informal, & was fasci......more

Well-written and excellently curated, I enjoyed every interview and found insights even where my opinions differed from the interviewee. I can’t wait to get my hands on a personal copy so I can reread it and fill it with sticky notes. 10/10.......more

Written in the form of dialogues with some of the most prominent scientists of the present and past (the later was imaginary talk with Leonardo da Vinci, I liked that). Good ol' Leo was all in wonder it took us 500 years to implement some of his findings. You can learn a lot from each of these dialog......more

I wish I could give more than 5 stars to this book. No book has ever captured my imagination like this book. It is a journey which takes you to cosmos and its enormity in one chapter and helps you to explore brain and its mystery in another. And the best part... All this comes straight from the hors......more