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Existential Therapy from the Universe: Physicist Sean Carroll on How Poetic Naturalism Illuminates Our Human Search for Meaning
“The world is what exists and what happens, but we gain enormous insight by talking about it — telling its story — in different ways.”
The Dialogues: Illustrated Conversations About the Most Thrilling Frontiers of Science by Theoretical Physicist and Self-Taught Artist Clifford Johnson
From black holes to the multiverse, a cosmic comic celebrating the endangered art of human conversation.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on How the “Qualia” of Our Experience Illuminate the Central Mystery of Consciousness
“Without consciousness there is nothing… Consciousness is the central fact of your life.”
Our Smallness and the Cosmic Scale: How Big the Universe Is Relative to Us, Animated
A humbling celestial reflection on what enlarges the minuteness of human life with meaning against the vast backdrop of the universe.
The Unity of the Universe: Nobel-Winning Physicist Steven Weinberg on Simplicity and Complexity, Science and Religion, and the Ultimate Question
“We all bear conflicting needs within us. We want both, simplicity and abundance.”
The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
What the second law of thermodynamics has to do with the meaning of life.
Albert Einstein on the Interconnectedness of Our Fates and Our Mightiest Counterforce Against Injustice
“There is [a] human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.”
Hannah Arendt on Science, the Value of Space Exploration, and How Our Cosmic Aspirations Illuminate the Human Condition
A timeless case against human solipsism and a clarion call for non-egocentric curiosity about the nature of reality.
Song of Two Worlds: Alan Lightman’s Poetic Ode to Science, the Unknown, and Our Search for Meaning, Illustrated by a Teenager in India
“One thousand questions, and each gives an answer, which then forms a question.”
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