When We Cease to Understand the World

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192 pages

Average rating: 7.67

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Anonymous
Jun 26, 2024
10/10 stars
“The atoms that tore Hiroshima and Nagasaki apart were split not by the greasy fingers of a general, but by a group of physicists armed with a fistful of equations.”

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“it was mathematics — not nuclear weapons, computers, biological warfare or our climate Armageddon — which was changing our world to the point where, in a couple of decades at most, we would simply not be able to grasp what being human really meant.”

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“Recently, the night gardener asked me if I knew how citrus fruits died: when they reach old age, if they manage to survive droughts, diseases and the countless attacks of pests, fungi and pests, they succumb to overabundance. When they reach the end of their life cycle, they give one last gigantic harvest of lemons. In its final spring, its flowers sprout and bloom in huge clusters and fill the air with a sweetness so fragrant it makes your throat and nostrils itch two blocks away; Its fruits ripen all at once, entire branches break under its weight, and after a couple of weeks the ground around it is covered with rotten lemons. It is strange, he told me, to see so much exuberance before death. "
ChrisCarne
Jan 02, 2023
8/10 stars
A star knocked off simply for being too short. I could have happily read a lot more of this.

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