Download or read book A Universe from Nothing written by Lawrence Maxwell Krauss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a provocative account of the astounding new answers to the most basic philosophical question: Where did the universe come from and how will it end?
Download or read book The Science Delusion written by Rupert Sheldrake and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freeing the Spirit of EnquiryThe Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book (published in the US as Science Set Free), Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows that science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. The 'scientific worldview' has become a belief system. All reality is material or physical. The world is a machine, made up of dead matter. Nature is purposeless. Consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain. Free will is an illusion. God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls. Sheldrake examines these dogmas scientifically, and shows persuasively that science would be better off without them: freer, more interesting, and more fun.In The God Delusion Richard Dawkins used science to bash God, but here Rupert Sheldrake shows that Dawkins' understanding of what science can do is old-fashioned and itself a delusion.
Download or read book Nothing like science written by Magnus Alfred Pyke and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nothing Like Science written by Pyke, Magnus and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Do the Math Why Math Is Nothing Like How You Imagine written by Jack Tanner and published by Magus Books. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God had to design a language with which he could make the universe, what language would it be? Mathematics is the only language fit for God and fit for a universe. But if the universe is made of mathematics, why not God too? God uses mathematics for Creation because God is mathematics. God is a living quantum computer and individual souls are quantum nodes of God. Isn't it time you did the math? Mathematics is both the language and substance of divinity.
Download or read book Nothing Like the Sun written by Anthony Burgess and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.
Download or read book Void written by James Owen Weatherall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Physics of Wall Street “deftly explains all you wanted to know about nothingness—a.k.a. the quantum vacuum” (Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens). James Owen Weatherall’s bestselling book, The Physics of Wall Street, was named one of Physics Today’s five most intriguing books of 2013. In this work, he takes on a fundamental concept of modern physics: nothing. The physics of stuff—protons, neutrons, electrons, and even quarks and gluons—is at least somewhat familiar to most of us. But what about the physics of nothing? Isaac Newton thought of empty space as nothingness extended in all directions, a kind of theater in which physics could unfold. But both quantum theory and relativity tell us that Newton’s picture can’t be right. Nothing, it turns out, is an awful lot like something, with a structure and properties every bit as complex and mysterious as matter. In his signature lively prose, Weatherall explores the very nature of empty space—and solidifies his reputation as a science writer to watch. Included on the 2017 Best Book List by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) “An engaging and interesting account.”—The Economist “Readers get a dose of biography while following such figures as Einstein, Dirac, and Newton to see how top theories about the void have been discovered, developed, and debunked. Weatherall’s clear language and skillful organization adroitly combines history and physics to show readers just how much ‘nothing really matters.’”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Knowledge Machine How Irrationality Created Modern Science written by Michael Strevens and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise.” —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. • Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe? In a groundbreaking work that blends science, philosophy, and history, leading philosopher of science Michael Strevens answers these challenging questions, showing how science came about only once thinkers stumbled upon the astonishing idea that scientific breakthroughs could be accomplished by breaking the rules of logical argument. Like such classic works as Karl Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery and Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine grapples with the meaning and origins of science, using a plethora of vivid historical examples to demonstrate that scientists willfully ignore religion, theoretical beauty, and even philosophy to embrace a constricted code of argument whose very narrowness channels unprecedented energy into empirical observation and experimentation. Strevens calls this scientific code the iron rule of explanation, and reveals the way in which the rule, precisely because it is unreasonably close-minded, overcomes individual prejudices to lead humanity inexorably toward the secrets of nature. “With a mixture of philosophical and historical argument, and written in an engrossing style” (Alan Ryan), The Knowledge Machine provides captivating portraits of some of the greatest luminaries in science’s history, including Isaac Newton, the chief architect of modern science and its foundational theories of motion and gravitation; William Whewell, perhaps the greatest philosopher-scientist of the early nineteenth century; and Murray Gell-Mann, discoverer of the quark. Today, Strevens argues, in the face of threats from a changing climate and global pandemics, the idiosyncratic but highly effective scientific knowledge machine must be protected from politicians, commercial interests, and even scientists themselves who seek to open it up, to make it less narrow and more rational—and thus to undermine its devotedly empirical search for truth. Rich with illuminating and often delightfully quirky illustrations, The Knowledge Machine, written in a winningly accessible style that belies the import of its revisionist and groundbreaking concepts, radically reframes much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world.
Download or read book Autopilot written by Andrew Smart and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Smart wants you to sit and do nothing much more often – and he has the science to explain why. At every turn we’re pushed to do more, faster and more efficiently: that drumbeat resounds throughout our wage-slave society. Multitasking is not only a virtue, it’s a necessity. Books such as Getting Things Done, The One Minute Manager, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People regularly top the bestseller lists, and have spawned a considerable industry. But Andrew Smart argues that slackers may have the last laugh. The latest neuroscience shows that the “culture of effectiveness” is not only ineffective, it can be harmful to your well-being. He makes a compelling case – backed by science – that filling life with activity at work and at home actually hurts your brain. A survivor of corporate-mandated “Six Sigma” training to improve efficiency, Smart has channeled a self-described “loathing” of the time-management industry into a witty, informative and wide-ranging book that draws on the most recent research into brain power. Use it to explain to bosses, family, and friends why you need to relax – right now.
Download or read book Medical common sense written by Edward Bliss Foote and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Apologetics written by Walter Devivier and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Possibility of Discussion written by Hugo Strandberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answering the question 'How is fruitful discussion possible?', this book addresses the central philosophical issue of how reason shall be understood and how it is limited. This study argues that the understanding of discussion according to which it necessarily starts from putative universal norms and rules for argumentation is problematic, among other reasons since such rules are unfruitful in contexts where there are vast disagreements such as religion. Inspired by Wittgensteinian ideas, Strandberg develops instead a new way of understanding discussion, truth and rationality which escapes these problems, and shows how this solution can be used to answer the accusation against Wittgensteinian philosophy for being conservative and resulting in fideism.
Download or read book HENRY DRUMMOND Ultimate Collection written by Henry Drummond and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-04-21 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited Henry Drummond collection has been formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Natural Law in the Spiritual World The Ascent of Man The Monkey That Would Not Kill The New Evangelism Love, the Greatest Thing in the World Lessons From the Angelus Pax Vobiscum First! An Address to Boys The Changed Life, the Greatest Need of the World Dealing With Doubt Eternal Life Stones Rolled Away The Man Who Is Down One Way to Help Boys An Appeal to the Outsider: or, the Claims of Christianity Life on the Top Floor The Kingdom of God and Your Part in It The Three Elements of a Complete Life A Life for a Life The Ideal Man The City Without a Church The Programme of Christianity
Download or read book Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July 1918-1943 include reports of various neurological and psychiatric societies.
Download or read book Natural Law in the Spirritual World written by Henry Drummond and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Natural Law in the Spirritual World by Henry Drummond
Download or read book The Natural Law in the Spiritual World written by Henry Drummond and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Natural Law in the Spiritual World" Henry Drummond deals with those questions by exploring the relation of religion and spirituality with the physical world. He argues that the disconnect between the spiritual and the physical was entirely illusory and that faith was by no means in conflict with science. Contents: Biogenesis Degeneration Growth Death Mortification Eternal Life Environment Conformity to Type Semi-Parasitism Parasitism Classification
Download or read book Unbelief Trilogy written by C. B. Stone and published by InkedPlot Media. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devastation. Destruction. Evil. Darkness has a name, and its name is Rehabilitation. She wasn't around to witness it, but she's heard the stories, and seen the aftermath. The Old World was demolished. And from its ashes, the Elite rose up as the ruling power of the New World, enforcing new laws. Laws that are now broken at great peril... When Sinna witnesses her best friend kidnapped, her heart sinks. She knows he is destined for a fate worse than death. She'd have to be deaf not to hear the rumors, the whispers of what happens at Rehabilitation. And she’s seen the vacant looks in the eyes of those who return. If they return. But she can't just let her friend be kidnapped and murdered, or worse. She must try to save him. No matter the danger. No matter the cost. This is a dystopian post-apocalyptic box set loaded with adventure.
