Wilczek mentions three key themes the book follows: ( “Soul” as in when an aircraft has “124 souls onboard including crew.”) I’ve never seen them as exclusive or incompatible, but as the Yin and Yang of a complete soul. Given those minds are what set us apart from the animals, using them to study His handiwork seems almost a calling.Ī key aspect of my life’s path has been navigating between my spiritual and scientific views. After all, if God did create everything, that includes our curious, investigative, inventive minds. Under the presumption God created the universe, and that He created a sensible rational universe, it is surely something we can study. In that spirit, we can interpret the search for knowledge as a form of worship, and our discoveries as revelations.

I like to state it this way: In studying how the world works, we are studying how God works, and thereby learning what God is.

The spirit of their enterprise, and mine here, transcends specific dogmas, whether religious or antireligious. One of his more famous quotations is: “Subtle is the lord, but malicious he is not.” In the Preface, Wilczek points out how many scientific heroes - Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell - were devout Christians studying what they perceived as God’s handiwork. As often seems to happen, many of those bits come from the Preface or Introduction, when the author is laying out the path they intend to follow in the book. Any quote you see in my posts that’s from a library book I typed in.Īnyway, the book was mainstream enough there isn’t much to talk about, but some bits I highlighted as tasty. Sadly, the library app doesn’t allow me to copy highlighted text, but at least there’s a listing of the highlights and easy navigation to them. One thing I like about ebooks is the ability to highlight text. Apparently lots of people wanted to read it.īottom line, I recommend it as an easy and enjoyable read, especially for those with a more casual interest in physics. It didn’t become available until September 3 - more than a three-month wait. I saw it on the library’s list of new books and put it on hold back on May 14th. I enjoyed reading it, but it’s mainly a review of physics as we know it. It’s yet another book explaining fundamental physics for lay readers, and it does so pretty much entirely within the bounds of mainstream science. I just finished Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality (2021), by Frank Wilczek.

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