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An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity-the foundations of science-to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.

Since Copernicus, humanity has increasingly seen itself…

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Few physicists are more immersed in the history of philosophy, religion, and culture than Marcelo Gleiser. A brilliant cosmologist and Templeton award winner with multiple books exploring the biggest questions in physics and spirituality, Gleiser’s brand new book is, as its subtitle suggests, also a manifesto.

No less than, our very future depends on a renewed understanding of the extraordinary and utterly unique nature of intelligent life and of the special place it holds in the universe. 

I know of few physicists more immersed in the history of philosophy, religion, and culture than Marcelo Gleiser.

A brilliant cosmologist and Templeton award winner with multiple books exploring the biggest questions in physics and spirituality, Gleiser’s brand new book is, as its subtitle suggests, also a manifesto. No less than our very future depends on a renewed understanding of the extraordinary and utterly unique nature of intelligent life, and of the special place it holds in the universe. 

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