The Beginning of Infinity
by David Deutsch
A physicist's argument that good explanations are the engine of all progress, that problems are soluble, that optimism is a rational stance and that human knowledge has no inherent limit. It ranges over science, art, politics and evolution. Demanding, exhilarating and the most optimistic serious book of the century so far.
Read it if…
you want a rigorous case for optimism and the primacy of explanation.
Skip it if…
you want an easy read; it is not.
Three things you will actually use
- Problems are inevitable; problems are soluble.
- Seek good explanations, hard to vary.
- Optimism is the belief that failure is not final.
Do this first
Read chapter one and chapter nine (optimism), then decide whether to read the rest.
Our verdict
Rational optimism, rigorously.
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