... the care and integrity I have valued in all these people.AcknowledgmentsIdeas into Words Ideas into Words oneTo write nonfiction, whether “science writing” or anyother kind, is an act of ... until you re-ally know—and, of course, to put what you know into words. It requires a certain trust, to be a reader.Once the words are in print, however, it’s the writerwho has to trust, because ... different col-ors until the words droop and die. Whatever the readerdoes, the writer has no recourse.Yet how intertwined we are, reader and writer, sharinga universe of words. Reading, I can sit...