Wagner, Roger, <br/><br/>
The penultimate curiosity :  how science swims in the slipstream of ultimate questions / 
Roger Wagner, artist and writer, and Andrew Briggs, professor of nanomaterials, University of Oxford, UK. 
 - First edition. 
 - xxiii, 468 pages :  illustrations (some color) ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-456) and index. 
<br/><br/>In the beginning -- God-driven science -- Encounters in Alexandria -- The long argument -- The open book of heaven -- Priests of nature -- The ocean of truth -- Voyages of discovery -- In the beginning II -- Through the laboratory door -- Epilogue. 
<br/><br/> When 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. -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780198747956 0198747950 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015942568 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Religion and science.<br/>Curiosity.<br/>RELIGION--General.<br/>Curiosity.<br/>Religion and science.<br/>Religion<br/>Wissenschaft<br/>Wissbegier<br/>Religion and Science.<br/>Science--history.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL240.3  / .W34 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>201.6/5