The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions
- ISBN-10
- 0191065145
- ISBN-13
- 9780191065149
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 512
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-02-25
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Andrew Briggs, Roger Wagner
Description
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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