This book tells the story of an amazing scientific discovery in a fascinating and accessible first-person manner. Theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt, a professor at Princeton University, the author of important cosmological theories about the early Universe, in whose honor the International Mineralogical Association named a new mineral “steinhardtite” in 2014, describes how a new form of matter was found - quasicrystals, with an atomic configuration that is forbidden laws of classical crystallography. This is a fascinating story about the birth of a new scientific direction, about the “impossibility” that turned out to be possible, about true passion and desperate courage in science. The publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.