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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…
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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.
From William's list on the ultimate nature of reality.
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