Carlo: We live in an age where people will try and use science itself or certainly scientific language to provide certainties on the internet. I think that it's a difficult and subtle balance to understand that reliable does not been certain especially when there are these difficult issues which are political have various side. He says if we got out of this certain thing and talking to a moral liability would be much much easier.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal is joined by writer, science populariser and theoretical, Carlo Rovelli.
He joins us to talk about the new English translation of his first book, Anaximander.
They all also discuss the singular genius of the philosophers of the past, the importance of questioning our reality, the significance of a typewriter in his writing career, and his admiration for the theoretical physicist John Wheeler.
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