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"Language philosophy, quantum mechanics, general relativity—they're all in __The Big Picture__. Sean Carroll is a fantastically erudite and entertaining writer."**—Elizabeth Kolbert,** author of Pulitzer Prize winner __The Sixth Extinction__**\*__Publishers Weekly__ #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016\***Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void? Does human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview?In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous...
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sean M. Carroll
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9782015050591
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Biology, Astronomy
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (2,208 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Big Picture : on the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (2022)
- The Big Picture : on the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (2019)
- Le grand tout: Sur l'origine de la vie, son sens et l'Univers lui-même (QUANTO) (2020)
- Вселенная [Происхождение жизни, смысл нашего существования и огромный космос] (2017)
- The Big Picture : On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (2017)
- Sean Carroll Collection 3 Books Set (Something Deeply Hidden [Hardcover], The Big Picture, The Particle at the End of the Universe) (2017)
- El gran cuadro: Los orígenes de la vida, su sentido y el universo entero (2017)
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