The sublime evokes our awe, our terror, and our wonder. Applied
first in ancient Greece to the heights of literary expression, in
the 18th-century the sublime was extended to nature and to the
sciences, enterprises that viewed the natural world as a
manifestation of God's goodness, power, and wisdom. In The
Scientific Sublime, Alan Gross reveals the modern-day sublime in
popular science. He shows how the great popular scientists of our
time-Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Brian
Greene, Lisa Randall, Rachel Carson, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven
Pinker, Richard Dawkins, and E. O. Wilson-evoke the sublime in
response to fundamental questions: How did the universe begin? How
did life? How did language? These authors maintain a tradition
initiated by Joseph Addison, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, and Adam
Smith, towering 18th-century figures who adapted the literary
sublime first to nature, then to science-though with one crucial
difference: religion has been replaced wholly by science. In a
final chapter, Gross explores science's attack on religion, an
assault that attempts to sweep permanently under the rug two
questions science cannot answer: What is the meaning of life? What
is the meaning of the good life?
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