How does a scientist's mind and imagination work?

An answer can be found in Georges-Louis Le Sage's 35,000 playing cards. A maverick physicist driven by a boundless greed for knowledge, this 18th-century Genevan wrote down all his trials and tribulations, his research, his inspirations, his doubts and his discoveries on preciously ordered playing cards. A testimony as precious as it is revealing of the pathways of a brilliant thought and an overflowing imagination.