Taken from his famous “Lectures on Physics,” Richard Feynman’s “Six Not-So-Easy Pieces” proves to be an impossibly cohesive delineation of the most fundamental yet unintuitive, and at times, disagreeing, concepts in modern physics.

In an insightful read that serves as a thorough yet intentionally non-exhaustive window into the world of string theory, Brian Greene masterfully guides the reader on a voyage through the scientific field that ambitiously offers humanity an unfathomable understanding of the universe.