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The penultimate curiosity : how science swims in the slipstream of ultimate questions / Roger Wagner, artist and writer and Andrew Briggs, professor of nanomaterials, University of Oxford, UK.

by Wagner, Roger, author.

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Religion and science.

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https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2015942568-b.html

9780198839286 (paperback) :

0198839286 (paperback)

xxv, 468 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

In the beginning -- God-driven science -- Encounters in Alexandria -- The long argument -- The open book of heaven -- Priests of nature -- The ocean of truth -- Voyages of discovery -- In the beginning II -- Through the laboratory door -- Epilogue.

When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity. --

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