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Sean Carroll

The Big Picture

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Where are we? Who are we? Do our beliefs, hopes and dreams mean anything out there in the void? Can human purpose and meaning ever fit into a scientific worldview? Acclaimed award-winning author Sean Carroll brings his extraordinary intellect to bear on the realms of knowledge, the laws of nature and the most profound questions about life, death and our place in it all. In a dazzlingly unique presentation, Carroll takes us through the scientific revolution’s avalanche of discoveries, from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness and the universe itself. Delving into the way the world works at the quantum, cosmic and human levels, he reveals how human values relate to scientific reality.An extraordinary synthesis of cosmos-sprawling science and profound thought, The Big Picture is Carroll’s quest to explain our world. Destined to sit alongside the works of our greatest thinkers, from Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan to Daniel Dennett and E. O. Wilson, this book shows that while our lives may be forever dwarfed by the immensity of the universe, they can be redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning.
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  • aspirhas quoted2 years ago
    Physics is, by far, the simplest science. It doesn’t seem that way, because we know so much about it, and the required knowledge often seems esoteric and technical. But it is blessed by this amazing feature: we can very often make ludicrous simplifications—frictionless surfaces, perfectly spherical bodies—ignoring all manner of ancillary effects, and nevertheless get results that are unreasonably good. For most interesting problems in other sciences, from biology to psychology to economics, if you modeled one tiny aspect of a system while pretending all the others didn’t exist, you would just end up getting nonsense.
  • aspirhas quoted3 years ago
    The world exists; beauty and goodness are things that we bring to it.
  • aspirhas quoted3 years ago
    The move from description to prescription, from saying what happens to passing judgment on what should happen, is a creative one, a fundamentally human act.

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