When We Cease to Understand the World

"When We Cease to Understand the World" by Benjamín Labatut is a brilliant and fascinating book about the paradox of scientific discoveries and the lines between madness and genius.

 

In "When We Cease to Understand the World" Benjamín Labatut unfolds the stories of some of the worlds’ most innovative scientists who with unparalleled talents balances between madness and genius with their discoveries that has the abilities to create both hope and peace but also death and destruction. With a gripping use of fiction Benjamín Labatut tells the stories about scientists like Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schroedinger who expanded our world to the impossible.