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Do You See What I See? A Poetic Vintage Art-Science Primer on the Building Blocks of the Perceptual World
A lovely illustrated serenade to a world strewn with “lines making patterns of beauty.”
Relativity, the Absolute, the Human Search for Truth: Nobel Laureate and Quantum Theory Originator Max Planck on Science and Mystery
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature… because… we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
Lost Radio Talks from the Harvard Observatory: Cecilia Payne, Who Discovered the Chemical Fingerprint of the Universe, on the Science of Stars and the Muse of All Great Scientists
“A common chemistry and a common physics run through the universe.”
Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning
“It is only a narrow passage of truth (no matter whether scientific or other truth) that passes between the Scylla of a blue fog of mysticism and the Charybdis of a sterile rationalism. This will always be full of pitfalls and one can fall down on both sides.”
Being Against Becoming: Susan Sontag on Our Ambivalent Historical Conscience
“We understand something by locating it in a multi-determined temporal continuum. Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.”
The Fascinating Science of How Trees Communicate, Animated
“Trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see.”
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer: Walt Whitman’s Timeless Reckoning with the Limits of Science
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
Crescendo: A Watercolor Ode to the Science, Strangeness, and Splendor of Pregnancy
From sesame seed to selfhood, a lyrical serenade to the astonishing process by which we all enter the world.
These Truths: Jill Lepore on How the Shift from Mythology to Science Shaped the Early Dream of Democracy
“The past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden. It can’t be shirked. You carry it everywhere. There’s nothing for it but to get to know it.”
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