| Introduction | vii |
| | PART I: THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION | |
| 1: | The Five Great Problems in Theoretical Physics | 1 |
| 2: | The Beauty Myth | 18 |
| 3: | The World As Geometry | 38 |
| 4: | Unification Becomes a Science | 54 |
| 5: | From Unification to Superunification | 66 |
| 6: | Quantum Gravity: The Fork in the Road | 80 |
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PART II: A BRIEF HISTORY OF STRING THEORY | |
| 7: | Preparing for a Revolution | 101 |
| 8: | The First Superstring Revolution | 114 |
| 9: | Revolution Number Two | 129 |
| 10: | A Theory of Anything | 149 |
| 11: | The Anthropic View | 161 |
| 12: | What String Theory Explains | 177 |
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PART III: BEYOND STRING THEORY | |
| 13: | Surprises from the Real World | 203 |
| 14: | Building on Einstein | 223 |
| 15: | Physics After String Theory | 238 |
| PART IV: LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE | |
| 16: | How Do You Fight Sociology? | 261 |
| 17: | What Is Science? | 289 |
| 18: | Seers and Craftspeople | 306 |
| 19: | How Science Really Works | 332 |
| 20: | What We Can Do for Science | 349 |