The Penultimate Curiosity : How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions PDF
by Roger Wagner, Andrew Briggs
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When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination.
The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions.
It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity. These two manifestations of curiosity have a history of connection that goes back deep into the human past.
Tracing that history all the way from cave painting to quantum physics, this book (a collaboration between a painter and a physical scientist that uses illustrations throughout the narrative) sets out to explain the nature of the long entanglement between religion and science: the ultimate and the penultimate curiosity.
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- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:25/02/2016
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- ISBN:9780191065149
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:25/02/2016
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- ISBN:9780191065149