![]() ![]() Peter Watson, at any rate, was stirred and has written a lively and colorful volume to illustrate that “convergent pattern.” Watson is a prolific novelist and popular historian of art, ideas, and now science. By tracing these arrows of explanation back toward their source we have discovered a striking convergent pattern-perhaps the deepest thing we have yet learned about the universe. Our scientific discoveries are not independent isolated facts one scientific generalization finds its explanation in another, which is itself explained by yet another. ![]() But perhaps the most beautiful and the most peculiar thing that they have discovered is the pattern of science itself. In Dreams of a Final Theory, Steven Weinberg propounds a familiar but unfailingly stirring claim: Scientists have discovered many peculiar things, and many beautiful things. Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science ![]()
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