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The island of knowledge: the limits of science and the search for meaning
Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what’s “out there.” In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for...
Autor principal: | Gleiser, Marcelo |
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Lenguaje: | eng |
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Basic Books
2014
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Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1749697 |
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