Tag: mathematics
How Science Lost Its Mind
Before Darwin, nearly everyone, in every corner of the world, believed in some type of ‘‘intelligent design,” and the majority still do.
Are the Laws of the Universe “Inevitable”?
What is inevitable here is not the mathematical beauty of physical law, but the circumlocutions scientists use to evade design in nature.
“Fearless”: Princeton Mathematician Sergiu Klainerman on Berlinski’s Human Nature
“The man is fearless in pursuing lines of reasoning that are considered taboo by current standards.”
Listen: David Berlinski on His New Book, Human Nature
Is evolution carrying us upward to new heights of human goodness, as some have claimed?
Gelernter: Berlinski’s Human Nature Is “Number One” Book I’d Recommend to Yale Students
“Berlinski is a modern Hannah Arendt, but deeper, more illuminating, and wittier (i.e., smarter).”