The last great discoveries in physics? The confirmation of the Higgs Boson in 2012 and the detection of gravitational waves in 2015. Chris Quigg, a physicist whose career is closely tied to the Higgs Boson (an elementary particle whose existence was only mathematical in the 1960s, when it was named after the British physicist Peter Higgs—he is still alive; he was awarded a Noble Prize a year after the Large Hadron Collider determined its reality). Quigg's new book, co-authored with Robert N. Cahn, Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature, vividly and clearly describes the path taken to what is also known as the "god particle." That path was high energy, and anyone who has read the greatest science fiction novel of the 21st century, Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, knows the future of physics, from a Chinese perspective, is still in colliders. Grace in All Simplicity is built like an adventure novel, but instead of going outward, we go ever-inward, ever closer to the most basic parts of the whole picture show we see and feel every living day.