The book by one of the most famous scientists of our time, Nobel laureate in physics, PhD Steven Weinberg, is a fascinating and encyclopedically complete history of science. This is a fundamental work about how modern scientific knowledge was born and developed, moving from simple collection of facts to precise methods of understanding the world around us. One of the most famous thinkers of today will take us along an interesting path - from the ancient Greeks to our era, through the development of science in the Arab and European world in the Middle Ages, to the scientific revolution of the 16th-17th centuries and further to Newton, Einstein, the standard model, gravity and string theory. This book is for everyone who is interested in history, the current state of science and the ways in which it will develop in the future.