Human Universe
by Professor Brian Cox
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Physics, Science, and Nonfiction.
Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum the laws of nature conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from.What is a human being Objectively, nothing of consequence. Particles of dust in an infinite arena,...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Physics, Science, and Nonfiction.
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Richard Dawkins
“Now rereading (actually listening to) Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen?s wonderful book, Human Universe. Beautifully & intelligently written (& the same goes for Samuel West?s reading). A book that fills one with admiration for science as perhaps humanity?s most sublime achievement. | Now rereading (actually listening to) Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen’s wonderful book, Human Universe. Beautifully & intelligently written (& the same goes for Samuel West’s reading). A book that fills one with admiration for science as perhaps humanity’s most sublime achievement.”
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