Epstein Secrets

uthor, Sausalito, CA David Buss, Psychologist, U. of Texas, Austin Sean Carroll, Physicist, CalTech David Chalmers, Philosopher, New York University Noam Chomsky, Linguist, MIT Nicholas A. Christakis, Physician & Sociologist, Yale David Christian, Historian, Macquarie University George Church, Geneticist, Har

Chalmers, Philosopher, New York University Noam Chomsky, Linguist, MIT Nicholas A. Christakis, Physician

sicist, NYU Dan Sperber, Cognitive Scientist, Director of Research, CNRS, Paris Rory Sutherland, Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather, UK Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor of Physics, Princeton Christopher Stringer, Paleontologist, British Museum Steven Strogatz, Physicist, Cornell University Leonard Susskind

chest minds around. Their knowledge of film, literature and the arts is unsurpassed. Their capacity to bring these riches to the sciences is a gift. Noam Chomsky... for inspiration, fearless attacks on power mongering, and friendship. Errol Morris... for heated discussion, camaraderie, and insights into evil

he biologist Peter Marler famously spoke of singing in birds as an instinct to learn, while the evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker described the Chomskyan insight into language as the /anguage instinct. A bird’s instinct to learn does not mean that there is a one- to-one, inflexible mapping between gene

ion 19 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012765 Chapter I: Nature’s secrets Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse. — Albert Einstein In Charles Darwin’s day, biologists unearthed the mysteries of evolution by means of observation, sometimes accompanied by a simple experiment. This

by the twentieth- and twenty-first- century versions of Plato's philosopher? is one of the most astonishing achievements of the human intellect." —Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (emeritus), MIT "Charming ... Krauss has written an account with sweep and verve that shows the fu

ing achievements of the human intellect." —Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics

magnetism and plugged in the numbers, he derived: Speed of electromagnetic waves Fac 311,000,000 meters per second A famous story claims that when Albert Einstein finished his Gen- eral Theory of Relativity and compared its predictions for the orbit of Mercury to the measured numbers, he had heart palpitations