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David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
A maioria dos esforços científicos prossegue testando hipóteses imperfeitamente estabelecidas contra resultados da observação um pouco melhorados.
Neil deGrasse Tyson • Origens: Catorze bilhões de anos de evolução cósmica (Portuguese Edition)
He could construct complex equations, but more important, he knew that math is the language nature uses to describe her wonders.
Walter Isaacson • Einstein: His Life and Universe
what I want is that most people really care about science and view scientific achievement as a pinnacle of our best qualities as leaders of Western civilization. This is one point that Ayn Rand, the novelist, philosopher, and oft eccentric worshipper of individual excellence got right, namely that we should all revere creators and scientific innova
... See moreTyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
Both are seeking universal, objective truth.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
his underlying goal was to teach people that the universe was a far weirder place than they realized.
Tom Shroder • Acid Test
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Discovering the majority of the matter that makes up our universe after decades of confusing it for a vacuum should force us to ponder what else we can’t observe even though it exists.
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
What this book aims to show is that the computational universe conceived of by Wheeler and popularized by Seth Lloyd is also the Darwinian universe described by universal Darwinism and evolutionary epistemology.