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03277cam a22005054a 4500 001 31C93E2C2B0811DE986A0F08A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 008 040602s2005 nyu 000 0deng 010 $a 2004052052 020 $a 9780375423208 (hardback) 020 $a 0375423206 (hardback) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d XY4 $d NLGGC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCG $d IWV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a Q172.5.C74 $b L54 2005 082 00 $a 501 $2 22 084 $a 02.00 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Lightman, Alan P., $d 1948- 245 1 $a A sense of the mysterious : $b science and the human spirit / $c Alan Lightman. 260 $a New York : $b Pantheon Books, $c c2005. 300 $a 211 p. ; $c 20 cm. 505 0 $a Sense of the mysterious -- Words -- Metaphor in science -- Inventions of the mind -- Contradictory genius -- One and only -- Megaton man -- Dark matter -- Scientist dying young -- Portrait of the writer as a young scientist -- Prisoner of the wired world -- Acknowledgments. 520 $a Unusually gifted as both a physicist and a novelist, Alan Lightman has lived in the dual worlds of science and art for much of his life. In these brilliant essays, the two worlds meet. In A Sense of the Mysterious, Lightman records his personal struggles to reconcile certainty with uncertainty, logic with intuition, questions with answers and questions without. Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of metaphor and imagination in science, the creative moment, the different uses of language in science and literature, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Included are in-depth portraits of some of the great scientists of our time: Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, and astronomer Vera Rubin. Rather than finding a forbidding gulf between the two cultures, as did the physicist and novelist C. P. Snow fifty years ago, Lightman discovers complementary ways of looking at the world, both part of being human. Original, thoughtful, and beautifully written, A Sense of the Mysterious confirms Alan Lightman's unique position at the crossroads of science and art. 650 0 $a Creative ability in science $x United States. 650 0 $a Science $x Philosophy. 600 10 $a Lightman, Alan P., $d 1948- 650 0 $a Scientists $z United States $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 17 $a Exacte wetenschappen. $2 gtt 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2004052052.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004052052.html 856 41 $3 Sample text $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0618/2004052052-s.html 941 $a 10 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926084705.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20180719021349.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180105044839.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160820091519.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150922024542.0 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20111229010939.0 952 $l UWAX953 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UDAX314 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=31C93E2C2B0811DE986A0F08A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search