"... Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist’s Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature (1992) ... belongs alongside G. H. Hardy’s ' (1940) and James Watson’s ' (1968) as one of the classic books in which a brilliant scientist has given his motivations full vent. But while Hardy and Watson portrayed science as a for personal glory, Weinberg portrayed it as a quest toward some final explanation, one that would undergird all others."