TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wagner,Roger
AU  - Briggs,Andrew
TI  - The penultimate curiosity: how science swims in the slipstream of ultimate questions 
SN  - 9780198747956
AV  - BL240.3 .W34 2016
U1  - 201.6/5 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Curiosity
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion
KW  - gnd
KW  - Wissenschaft
KW  - Wissbegier
KW  - Religion and Science
KW  - Science
KW  - history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-456) and index; 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
N2  - 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. --
ER  -