The Penultimate Curiosity
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The Penultimate Curiosity
Author | : Roger Wagner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2016-02-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191065145 |
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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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