The Island of Knowledge
the limits of science and the search for meaning
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2016
Summary
Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth?To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what’s out there.” In The Island of Knowledge , physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, the main tool we use to find answers, is fundamentally limited.These limits to our…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780465049646 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0465049648 |
| Author: | Marcelo Gleiser |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2016 |
| Weight: | 309g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 138mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Marcelo Gleiser
Marcelo Gleiser is Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. He has published numerous popular works, including an essay, Emergent Realities in the Cosmos,” which was featured in 2003’s Best American Science Writing, and three previous books: The Dancing Universe, The Prophet and the Astronomer, and A Tear at the Edge of Creation.
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