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We are products of a past world where sensitivities to certain things were a matter of life or death.
The Artful Universe (1995)
There is a good deal more to Pythagorean musical theory than celestial harmony.
The Artful Universe (1995)
The abstractions of Einstein's curved space and time gave rise to analogies and pictures that played a new explanatory role.
Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)
This may be the low-impact evolutionary path you need to follow in order to survive into the far, far future.
The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)
Just focusing on what exists now seems a bit exclusive.
The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)
Ultimate explanation no longer means only a story that encompasses everything.
New Theories of Everything (2007)
Life, like science and art, is a theory about the world: a theory that in our case takes bodily form.
The Artful Universe (1995)
There was always something left: a vacuum energy that permeated every fibre of the Universe.
The Book of Nothing (2009)
There is a good deal more to nothing than meets the eye.
The Book of Nothing (2009)
What had stopped them both in their tracks was Gamow's suggestion that the laws of physics could describe something being created out of nothing.
The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)
Copernicus' picture did more than picture the solar system correctly: it painted a new world picture.
Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)
The logic of the Greeks prevents them having the idea at all and it is to the Indian cultures that we must look to find thinkers who are comfortable with the idea that Nothing might be something.
The Book of Nothing (2009)
Atomism began life as a philosophical idea that would fail virtually every contemporary test of what should be regarded as 'scientific'; yet, eventually, it became the cornerstone of physical science.
Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation (1991)
Location is not, as the estate agents say, everything. We must also consider our place in history.
The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)
Continual miniaturisation allows resources to be conserved, efficiency to be increased, pollution to be reduced, and the remarkable flexibilities of the quantum world to be tapped.
The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)
If we used our discriminatory power to full, we could generate an undulating sea of sound that displayed continuously changing frequency rather like the undersea sonic songs of dolphins and whales.
The Artful Universe (1995)
If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
The Artful Universe (1995)
Mathematics became an experimental subject. Individuals could follow previously intractable problems by simply watching what happened when they were programmed into a personal computer.
Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)
There is no formula that can deliver all truth, all harmony, all simplicity. No Theory of Everything can ever provide total insight. For, to see through everything, would leave us seeing nothing at all.
New Theories of Everything (2007)
Everyone knows there are billions and billions of stars, and national debts conjure up similar astronomical numbers. Yet we have found a way to hide the zeros: 109 doesn't look as bad as 1,000,000,000.
The Book of Nothing (2009)