Summary

The Holy Grail of modern scientists is “The Theory of Everything,” which will contain all that can be known about the Universe — the magic formula that Einstein spent his life searching for and failed to find.

The Holy Grail of modern scientists is “The Theory of Everything,” which will contain all that can be known about the Universe — the magic formula that Einstein spent his life searching for and failed to find. In this elegant and exciting book, first published in 1990, John Barrow challenges the quest for ultimate explanation. The New Scientist says of The Theory of Everything: [It is] “an exhilarating journey that cuts across a vast terrain of conceptual landmarks: from physics to metaphysics, mathematics to philosophy, and from mythology to theology . . . without a doubt an important, engaging and highly literate book.”