There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

Written with his usual clarity and wit, these pieces, most were first published in Italian newspapers, range across time and space: from Newton's alchemy to Einstein's mistakes, from Nabokov's butterflies to Dante's cosmology, from mind-altering psychedelic substances to the meaning of atheism. The perfect gateway to the universe of one of the most influential physicists of our age.