Helen Czerski

The basic principles alone often won't provide specific answers, but they'll provide the context needed to ask the right questions. And if we're used to working things out... we won't feel hopeless when the answer isn't obvious...

This book is about linking the little things we see every day with the big world we live in.

As far as we know, the physical laws we observe... on Earth apply everywhere... You can test them for yourself.

You don't have to be a qualified scientist to experiment with the world. Knowing some basic principles will set you on the right track... [I]t doesn't even have to be an organized process...

We are responsible for our civilization. We vote... choose what to buy and how to live... collectively [as] part of the human journey.

Science is not about 'them', it's about 'us'... we can all go on this adventure in our own way.

Critical thinking is essential... especially with advertisers and politicians all telling us... they know best.

No one can understand every... detail of our complex world, but the basic principles are fantastically valuable tools...

This is why I love physics. Everything you learn will come in useful somewhere else, and it's all one big adventure...

In the past, information was treasured... These days we live on the shore of an ocean of knowledge... with regular s that threaten out sanity.

This is what separates science from other disciplines—a scientific hypothesis must make specific testable predictions. ...[Y]ou have to look hard for consequences that you can check for, and especially... that you can prove wrong.

Science is always trying to prove itself wrong, because that's the quickest route to finding what's actually going on.