Petit Point: A Candid Portrait on the Aberrations of Science - Paperbackby Pierre Gilles de Gennes (Author) In this fascinating book, Nobel Prize winner Pierre Gilles de Gennes wittily captures the lives of personalities from both the academic and the industrial world in delightful bite size stories. Most of the characters in this collection are like those in Aesop's fables, but in modern day research settings. The book provides a critical account of aberrations (fortunately rare) of the scientific community. Many lessons