How to Love the Universe

A Scientist’s Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World

By: Stefan Klein

Narrated by: Charles Constant

An eye-opening celebration of the marvels of space, time, the cosmos, and more.

How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In 10 short chapters of lyrical prose - each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery - Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science.

Klein sees in a single rose the sublime interdependence of all life; a day of stormy weather points to the world's unpredictability; a marble conjures the birth of the cosmos. As he contemplates the deepest mysteries - the nature of reality, dark matter, humanity's place among the galaxies, and more - Klein encourages us to fall in love with the universe the way scientists do: with a grasp of the key ideas and theories of 21st-century physics that bring to life the wonders of, really, everything.

You won't look at a rose - or at our world - the same way again.

©2017 S. Fischer Verlag GmbH; translation copyright 2018 by The Experiment, LLC (P)2018 Tantor

easy to understand

very succinct and informative. not overly technical. narration is pleasant and easy to listen to.

Wonder and Awe

This book is wonderful. Very informative and educational without losing you in the details, and very clearly communicates the author's sense of amazement and wonder at the universe around him. Enlightening and inspiring.

Wonderfully comprehensive

This book hits every mystery present in physics today without bogging you down with mathematics. The author is amazed with everything he talks about and brings the reader right there with him. Listen to this book