Curiosity and wonderment about the origins of the universe are at the heart of our experience of the world, and we can't help asking the awe-inspiring question: What exactly happened during those first moments? A central figure in the discovery of the Higgs boson (the "God particle"), physicist Guido Tonelli reveals the extraordinary story of our genesis—from the origins of the universe, to the emergence of life on Earth, to the birth of human language with its power to describe the world.