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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is a 2014 non-fiction book by Randall Munroe in which the author answers hypothetical science questions sent to him by readers of his webcomic, xkcd. The book contains a selection [Note 1] of questions and answers originally published on his blog What If?, along with several ...
Brief Answers to the Big Questions is a popular science book written by physicist Stephen Hawking, and published by Hodder & Stoughton (hardcover) and Bantam Books (paperback) on 16 October 2018. The book examines some of the universe 's greatest mysteries, and promotes the view that science is very important in helping to solve problems on ...
In 1738, the Scottish philosopher David Hume differentiated intellectual curiosity from a more primitive form of curiosity: . The same theory, that accounts for the love of truth in mathematics and algebra, may be extended to morals, politics, natural philosophy, and other studies, where we consider not the other abstract relations of ideas, but their real connexions and existence.
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void is a nonfiction work by science author Mary Roach.. Published in August 2010, Packing for Mars was recognized in "Amazon's Best Books" of that month, it quickly became a #6 New York Times bestseller, [1] and it was chosen as the book of the year for the 7th annual One City One Book: San Francisco Reads literary event program.
Rutherford published a book on the topic of the creation of life. The United Kingdom printing has been called "two books in one", [19] since Creation: The Origin of Life and Creation: The Future of Life [20] are printed back-to-back so that one can read the book from either end. [21]
The book is categorized as non-fiction science but some commentators emphasize it may be better described as speculative fiction. [69] The World Without Us is grounded in environmental and science journalism. Like other environmental books, it discusses the impact that the human race has had on the planet. [70]
The book challenges the assumption that consciousness is a byproduct of matter claiming that matter is actually an experience in consciousness. [4] The book proposes that the entire universe, as experienced by human beings, is a "human construct in consciousness." [4] The book delves into the two most prominent questions in science which are: