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“The Big Ship” by Brian Eno
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The body is a thing to be ordered, not obeyed.
Alan Lightman • Einstein's Dreams (Vintage Contemporaries)
The physicist Murray Gell-Mann has spoken often of the need, when faced with multidimensional problems, to take a “crude look at the whole”—a process he has even given an acronym, CLAW.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
was a classic illustration of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle—that the act of observation changes what is being observed.
Alan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
This is what physicist Max Planck (the father of quantum mechanics), Einstein, and others observed: No matter how much you know, there is an infinite amount of chance and randomness in the universe.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Physics is continually linked to other sciences while leaving the reader in no doubt about which is the fundamental discipline.
Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
A Thought Experiment