The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

by Marcelo Gleiser

Book Overview

Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465031714
• ISBN13: 9780465031719
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.5" x 6.3"