This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works (Edge Question Series)

full classification of possibilities; the final tally is only 17 in two dimensions (the so-called wallpaper patterns) and 230 in three dimensions.

If anything, evolution teaches that humans are creatures of passion and that reason itself is primarily aimed at social victory and political persuasion rather than philosophical or scientific truth. To insist that persistent rationality is the best means and hope for victory over enduring irrationality—that logical harnessing of facts could someda