Praise for The Universe in Verse : "This book is a wonder. Science writing so often negates the inherent wonder of science, which comes so brilliantly alive here. Something bursts open in the mind. And let me say this: Maria Popova has the rare gift of starting a sentence and leaving you in trance by its end. I'd read anything she writes." -- Jad Abumrad, creator, Radiolab "A feast of stories, ideas, and beauty for the mind and heart." -- Kirkus Reviews "With creativity, verve, and intention, Popova, erudite and clarion, beautifully accomplishes her mission to inspire wonder." -- Booklist "A rigorous, interdisciplinary delight.

" --Kara Lewis, Read Poetry Praise for Figuring : "[A] passionate and erudite pursuit of truth and beauty." -- Booklist (Starred Review) "Intimate . timely . Figuring thunders along with a novelistic intensity, propelled by the organic drama of its extraordinary lives . It speaks to the quality of Popova's own writing that it survives comparison with the literary giants of the last four centuries. Her wonderfully deft and sincere prose melts down the raw materials of heavy research into a coruscating flow of ideas, images, and insights that add skin and sinew to the bones of biographical fact to create a forward-looking history that's both timely and timeless." -- Vanity Fair "Strange and lovely . [An] ambitious, challenging and somewhat category-defying book .

fascinating . beautiful." --T he New York Times Book Review "Stunning in both its scope and execution. A shiningly femme, revolutionary, and poetic piece of literature." -- The Harvard Crimson "This is an ocean-deep and sky-uplifting book, an elaborate feast for both brain and soul. Written by the beyond brilliant Popova, it explores colossal questions through the interwoven lives of historical figures across centuries and disciplines including science, literature and art. There are galaxies of themes in the cosmos of Figuring--it's a literary masterpiece like nothing else--but most of all, it's a book on love, on meaning, on beauty, and on being." --Yana Buhrer Tavanier, TED.

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