Is it applicable to other academic pursuits this idea that we are all newton on the beach with pebbles looking out over the vastness of the sea or is it something that is really applicable to science and the study of science only could a historian think exactly the same way. I think they do in fact they do better than scientists, he says. Historians are deeply aware of the difficulty of having history formulated in terms of an objectic certain secure point of view. We know that our knowledge is within a certain perspective within a certain culture so it's limited but not equal according to him.
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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