All in all, the writer is serving as a go-between on scientific matters, spotlighting the humanity in science. He succeeds in the difficult task of finding the common element in disparate phenomena and in making it all so very interesting.
總之，作者穿針引線地導合了不少科學事蹟，以彰顯科學的人文面，難得的是他的以類貫通和趣味盎然。