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Simon Singh has an amazing knack for writing about complex scientific ideas in elegantly simple ways. It's his ability to find the human stories behind the science that makes this so readable and you find yourself picking up an understanding of things at the same time as you're turning the pages to find out what happens next. Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It

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I only discovered this book when John Fortune agreed to be a guest on Genius and I was finding out more about his background. He co-wrote it with John Wells over 3 weeks in 1971 and it's remarkable. At the recording I used it as an example of his genius and with good reason. It concerns a man who... well, who knows trees in the Biblical sense. Odd. Funny. A classic. A Melon for Ecstasy

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