Gripping and absorbing... Faust in Copenhagen is written with a style and skill that makes it an early contender for Science book of the year...one of the best I have read in a long time, and which can be whole heartedly recommended

Lively and accessible

[Segrè] demonstrates a knack for explaining weird conundrums and a humane sympathy for the wrong turnings and moral difficulties of his heroes

Segrè unravels the tensions and conflicts within the group, both personal and scientific, and of the different approaches to the task of making mathematical sense of the weirdness of the subatomic world

Faust in Copenhagen provides an engaging glimpse of the process of scientific discovery

An engaging romp through the strange world of the quantum and its creaters

Cocker is a beautiful writer...the twilight and his beloved rooks bring out the poet in him...a loving observation of the wonders on the wing in everyday England

The nation's most observant and intuitive of nature writers

As obsessive a celebration of rook and jackdaw - and of human immersion in nature - as anyone could wish

A vivid example of the "new nature writing" it is a lyrical and intense evocation of the world of jackdaws and rook, and an elegy on watchfulness