Dimensions
161 x 240 x 33mm
Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of all How much can we know of the world? Can we know everything? Or are there fundamental limits to how much science can explain? This question and its surprising consequences are the focus of this in-depth exploration of how we make sense of the universe and of ourselves. From the edges of the cosmos to the heart of the quantum and the inner workings of our minds, much of reality is unknowable. In The Island of Knowledge, Marcelo Gleiser argues that despite our belief in a powerful and all-seeing science, our knowledge of the world is necessarily incomplete; science needs to be cast in a new role.
