"What's especially original here is the book's structure. It's a collection of thoughts and questions, some playful, some very deep, each compact enough to fit on an index card. Nick has been writing these index cards to himself for the past 40 years. By arranging them longitudinally, he allows us to watch him unfold, captured as if by time-lapse photography, as he matures from promising teenager to the Professor of Numerical Analysis and FRS at Oxford. Whether you're a fellow mathematician, or merely a fellow human being, you're in for a treat you'll never forget. I know of nothing else like it."

"Technically, this book is very nicely produced. There are many colour figures as well. The book I found to be of very good value. I recommend this book to specialist scientists and members of the public alike interested in the breadth of topics covered, but also appreciating, as I do in detail, the incredible range of the abilities of Woolfson as an accomplished crystallographer, theoretical physicist and astrophysicist."

"This book contains even more information than is available online... it's certainly a fun volume to dip into."

"This book makes an interesting reading for all, right from scientists to those curious to understand human creativity. It is a bold step forward in the direction of knowing and improving creativity. More so for the performability engineers as creativity greatly influences performability."

"The contents and scope of this book are superb."

"My judgement of this book is favourable ... (Maxwell�0„3�0…4s) heart is in the right place, as he casts a friendly but highly critical eye on the Enlightenment Movement. �0„3�0…3We suffer, not from too much scientific rationality, but from not enough�0„3�0…4 he says ... recommending a massive cooperation between science and the humanities ... The book's style is refreshingly simple, clear."

"Professor Dutfield's book well deserves an updated edition. Everybody who knows about intellectual property rights �0„3�0„9 except those with a vested interest in keeping them as they are �0„3�0„9 accepts that the system is a mess, and is not doing what it is meant to. He shows with clarity and in detail how this has come about in the life sciences through legislation shaped by interests more than by any vision of the public good. Keynes believed that 'soon or late, it is ideas rather than vested interests, that are dangerous for good or ill'. Intellecual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries is a valuable reinforcement to the 'ideas' side in this particular battle."

"... it would make an excellent present for a chemist, giving hours of enjoyment over the holiday period."