The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

An entertaining read. --Jim Baggott"

Rich and entertaining [The Quantum Moment] is an introduction to the brave new world we inhabit. --Amir Alexander"

Reading The Quantum Moment is a very fun way to learn about where quantum physics comes from and the strange, even astonishing places it has gone with or without the physicists for whom it is the language of their craft. --Peter Galison, author of Einstein "

A fascinating tour of the lives and afterlives of some of the most captivating concepts of quantum theory.--David Kaiser, author of How the Hippies Saved Physics

Fascinating Crease and Goldhaber have written an accessible and entertaining history that embraces both the science and the silliness of quantum mechanics."

An entertaining read.--Jim Baggott

Approachable the authors are at their most entertaining when they expose the hollow understanding of physics that many who use its terms possess.--Max Ross"

A delight! A tour de force that is both illuminating and extraordinarily readable.--Gino Segre, author of Ordinary Geniuses: How Two Mavericks Shaped Modern Science

This is an amazing book for scientists and humanists alike! Every page yields surprises--not only about the complex history of quantum physics but about how it impacts our understanding of ourselves in daily life. Required reading for anyone concerned with casting the fate of humankind in a radically new light.--Edward S. Casey, author of The World at a Glance

Fascinating... Crease and Goldhaber have written an accessible and entertaining history that embraces both the science and the silliness of quantum mechanics.

Robert P. Crease writes the "Critical Point" column in Physics World and is a professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University. His books include The Great Equations and World in the Balance. Alfred Scharff Goldhaber is a professor of physics at Stony Brook University whose research ranges from elementary particles to cosmology. He also teaches an unorthodox course that introduces quantum mechanics by way of optics.