Unusually gifted as both a physicist and a novelist, Alan Lightman
has lived in the dual worlds of
science and art for much of his life. In these brilliant essays,
the two worlds meet. In A Sense of the Mysterious, Lightman records
his personal struggles to reconcile certainty with uncertainty,
logic with intuition, questions with answers and questions without.
Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of
metaphor and imagination in science, the creative moment, the
different uses of language in science and literature, and the
alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the
world. Included are in-depth portraits of some of the great
scientists of our time: Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Edward
Teller, and astronomer Vera Rubin. Rather than finding a forbidding
gulf between the two cultures, as did the physicist and novelist C.
P. Snow fifty years ago, Lightman discovers complementary ways of
looking at the world, both part of being human.
Original, thoughtful, and beautifully written, A Sense of the
Mysterious confirms Alan Lightman's unique position at the
crossroads of science and art.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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