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The Penultimate Curiosity - How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions (Hardcover)
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The Penultimate Curiosity - How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions (Hardcover)
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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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