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The Penultimate Curiosity
Roger WagnerAndrew Briggs
其他書名
How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions
出版Oxford University Press, 2016-02-25
主題Science / GeneralReligion / Religion & ScienceScience / Philosophy & Social AspectsScience / Physics / GeneralReligion / TheologyReligion / Christianity / GeneralPhilosophy / GeneralHistory / Europe / Medieval
ISBN01910757019780191075704
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rzFoCwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.