When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity.
These two manifestations of curiosity have a history of connection that goes back deep into the human past. Tracing that history all the way from cave painting to quantum physics, this book (a collaboration between a painter and a physical scientist that uses illustrations throughout the narrative) sets out to explain the nature of the long entanglement between religion and science: the ultimate and the penultimate curiosity.
- ISBN10 0198839286
- ISBN13 9780198839286
- Publish Date 17 April 2019 (first published 25 February 2016)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 December 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 496
- Language English