Sense of the Mysterious, A by Lightman Alan P

Sense of the Mysterious, A by Lightman Alan P

Unusually gifted as both a physicist and a novelist, Alan Lightman has lived in the dual worlds of
science and art for much of his life. In these brilliant essays, the two worlds meet. In A Sense of the Mysterious, Lightman records his personal struggles to reconcile certainty with uncertainty, logic with intuition, questions with answers and questions without. Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of metaphor and imagination in science, the creative moment, the different uses of language in science and literature, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Included are in-depth portraits of some of the great scientists of our time: Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, and astronomer Vera Rubin. Rather than finding a forbidding gulf between the two cultures, as did the physicist and novelist C. P. Snow fifty years ago, Lightman discovers complementary ways of looking at the world, both part of being human.
Original, thoughtful, and beautifully written, A Sense of the Mysterious confirms Alan Lightman's unique position at the crossroads of science and art.

From the Hardcover edition.

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ISBN 13	9780375423208
ISBN 10	0375423206
Title	Sense of the Mysterious, A
Author	Lightman Alan P
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2005-02-03
Number of pages	224
Prizes	Commended for Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) (Nonfiction) 2006
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