The seven-decade-long sweep of Martin Gardner's career is one of the most extraordinary in the history of twentieth-century thought. A gentle muse; Gardner began publishing articles on philosophy; literature; science; and mathematics in the late 1930s; while at the University of Chicago. He has since become one of America's most prolific and accomplished writers; tackling seemingly unanswerable questions from quantum physics to the existence of God. The fourty-seven essays in The Night Is Large have been culled by Gardner from the broad scope of his career; and form the most ambitious collection he has ever attempted. Ranging from philosophy to religion; mathematics to pseudoscience; these challenging; coruscating musings - each with a new introduction - represent Gardner at his skeptical best. His crowning achievement and a work of profound significance; The Night Is Large places Martin Gardner at the heart of American intellectual culture.