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Third Thoughts (Hardcover)
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A wise, personal, and wide-ranging meditation on science and
society by the Nobel Prize-winning author of To Explain the World.
For more than four decades, one of the most captivating and
celebrated science communicators of our time has challenged the
public to think carefully about the foundations of nature and the
inseparable entanglement of science and society. In Third Thoughts
Steven Weinberg casts a wide net: from the cosmological to the
personal, from astronomy, quantum mechanics, and the history of
science to the limitations of current knowledge, the art of
discovery, and the rewards of getting things wrong. Winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics and author of the classic The First Three
Minutes, Weinberg shares his views on some of the most fundamental
and fascinating aspects of physics and the universe. But he does
not seclude science behind disciplinary walls, or shy away from
politics, taking on what he sees as the folly of manned
spaceflight, the harms of inequality, and the importance of public
goods. His point of view is rationalist, realist, reductionist, and
devoutly secularist. Weinberg is that great rarity, a prize-winning
physicist who is entertaining and accessible. The essays in Third
Thoughts, some of which appear here for the first time, will
engage, provoke, and inform-and never lose sight of the human
dimension of scientific discovery and its consequences for our
endless drive to probe the workings of the cosmos.
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