Another insight from Jules Henri Poincaré is worth considering, to finish this review of Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture. Recall that Poincaré was a first-rate mathematical physicist in the late 1800s who also contributed to the philosophy of science. He said the only objective reality humans can get any sense of is “the internal harmony … Read more
For the second installment of this review and in the spirit of “poetic naturalism,” I refer now to one of my favorite books of all time: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a 1974 novel (which covers neither of those subjects). Here is only one story detail: the narrator travels real roads in an … Read more
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, by Sean Carroll, hardcover, published 2016. This post is a beginning and will be followed by others which delve further into the book’s interesting material. photo credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O’Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and … Read more