We are all familiar with discoveries that have become noticeable milestones on the path of human understanding of the laws of the surrounding world: starting with Archimedes’ guess about the magnitude of the force acting on a body immersed in a liquid, and ending with the latest theories of the hidden dimensions of space-time. But how were these made? discoveries? Why at the right time? Why exactly those whom we now consider to be pioneers? And what should someone do who wants not only to understand how everything around works, but also to find out how humanity came to the modern picture of the world? The book you are holding in your hands will help you touch the mystery of brilliant insights. The stories “Observations and Insights, or How Physicists Reveal the Laws of Nature” were written by a caring person who loves and knows physics, who sincerely admires its beauty. Therefore, the book is not just captivating - it allows you to feel initiated into a great mystery. Together with the author, you will admire the beauty of the universe and be surprised by the unexpected insights that helped reveal this beauty. The first part of the book, “From Aristotle to Nikola Tesla,” will tell about the path of development of science, starting with Aristotle’s statement “Nature abhors a vacuum” and the epicycles of Ptolemy , and to the heliocentric system of Copernicus and Galileo and the great equations of Maxwell. The reader will make this huge journey hand in hand with geniuses who lived long before us. “From Quantum to Dark Matter” is the second part of the book. She talks about things that we cannot see, cannot understand from the point of view of ordinary, everyday logic: the principle of relativity, time dilation, energy quantization, the uncertainty principle, black holes and dark matter. The history of mysterious, complex and fascinating modern physics will be revealed to the reader. So, go ahead - make discoveries together with geniuses!