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The Island of Knowledge - 9780465031719

Un libro in lingua di Marcelo Gleiser edito da Basic Books, 2014

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Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of all

How much can we know of the world? Can we know everything? Or are there fundamental limits to how much science can explain? This question and its surprising consequences are the focus of this in-depth exploration of how we make sense of the universe and of ourselves.

What we see of the world is only a tiny portion of what’s ?out there.” From the edges of the cosmos to the heart of the quantum and the inner workings of our minds, much of reality is unknowable. In The Island of Knowledge, Marcelo Gleiser argues that despite our belief in a powerful and all-seeing science, our knowledge of the world is necessarily incomplete; science needs to be cast in a new role. Recognizing limits, Gleiser shows, is not a deterrent to progress or a surrendering to the mercies of religion. Rather, it frees us to question the meaning and nature of the universe while affirming the central role of life and ourselves in it. Science can and must go on, but recognizing its limits reveals its true mission: to know the universe is to know ourselves.

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