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#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

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The Denial of Death in Losing the Nobel Prize Book

I've interacted with a few you know, or a large number of scientists that are getting up in age. And there is the feeling of a real pride of happiness in them from winning awards and getting certain recognitions. I probably at the core of that is a kind of a mortality or a kind of desire for mortality. So which is interesting because you do bring up Ernest Becker and the denial of death in losing the Nobel Prize book. It just rather than celebrating the pure joy of solving the puzzles of the mysteries all around us,. For its own sake.

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