{"product_id":"the-penultimate-curiosity-how-science-swims-in-the-slipstream-of-ultimate-questions-9780198747956","title":"The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions\u003c\/strong\u003e by Wagner, Roger. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780198747956.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\n\nThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45255244742709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0198747950","price":43.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780198747956_4c2261d1-4704-433d-af6b-f5eab42ad727.jpg?v=1779924765","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-penultimate-curiosity-how-science-swims-in-the-slipstream-of-ultimate-questions-9780198747956","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}