Bryson reemphasizes how strange, mysterious, and unknown most phenomena are at the subatomic scale, showing that there are many things scientists have yet to make sense of—and likely, also many things that scientists will
never make sense of. Bryson also leverages the example of Einstein to show how religious values can cloud scientific judgement. Einstein’s intuition that God would not create a world in which things are unknowable makes him want to reconcile reality with his image of the kind of world that God would create. Einstein’s wasted efforts show how religious intuitions can misdirect even the brightest of minds.