Reading this review, I can't tell what Lindley hoped to contribute with this book or why Al-Khalili found it noteworthy enough for a NYTimes book review (which itself is so brief that it doesn't seem to say much beyond something like "despite the claim to the contrary, Physics is more than math, and maybe in the future we'll be able to test some of the untested ideas that came from mathematical beauty.")

What am I missing here?