On the courage to spend a lifetime searching --
We are all stardust : on the beginning and end of the world / cosmologist Martin Rees --
Genes of the good : on egoism and selflessness / evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins --
In the hall of illusions : on consciousness / neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran --
Recalcitrant zebra : on chance and necessity in history / physiologist and geographer Jared Diamond --
Chimps are individuals like us : on our relationship to animals / primatologist Jane Goodall --
Unity of the world : on science and religion / physicist Steven Weinberg --
Can we become immortal? : on aging / molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn --
Is luxury immoral? : on ethics / philosopher Peter Singer --
Our well-being depends on our friends and their friends : on human relationships / physician and social scientist Nicholas Christakis --
Software of life : on the human genome / biochemist Craig Venter --
Poetry of molecules : on beauty / chemist and poet Roald Hoffmann --
Do you remember? : on memory / neurobiologist Hannah Monyer --
Others in our heads : on empathy / neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese --
Laws of devotion : on altruism / animal behavior researcher Raghavendra Gadagkar --
Hunger for fairness : on morality / economist Ernst Fehr --
Strongest feeling of all : on pain / neuropharmacologist Walter Zieglgänsberger --
Female side of evolution : on motherhood / anthropologist Sarah Hrdy --
Babies can be smarter than us : on childhood / developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik --
Love is the offspring of knowledge : on the beginning of modern scientific research / artist Leonardo Da Vinci.
