Amir D. Aczel
Born
in Haifa, Israel
November 06, 1950
Died
November 26, 2015
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Fermat's Last Theorem
34 editions
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1996
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Entanglement
24 editions
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2002
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God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
17 editions
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published
1999
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The Mystery of the Aleph
20 editions
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published
2000
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Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
13 editions
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published
2015
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God
17 editions
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published
2013
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The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
19 editions
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published
2007
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
22 editions
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published
2001
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Descartes's Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe
19 editions
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2005
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Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider
14 editions
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2010
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“In so many ways, the same impulse to know the world and our place in it is at the roots of both science and spirituality. Both are attempts to illuminate the mysteries of our world and expand our vision of the greater whole. By charting the history of science, I hope these pages have shown how vital and awesome real science is. Throughout history, scientific discovery has brought us closer to the wonders of life and the universe—and immeasurably deepened our appreciation for creation. It engages the world and inspires the best in us. But the pursuit of truth should not be driven by zealous agenda. Nor should it overreach and speak with righteous authority where it’s on unsolid ground. That’s not science—and let’s not allow those who falsely invoke its name to diminish us.”
― Why Science Does Not Disprove God
― Why Science Does Not Disprove God
“In this world, what is here is not necessarily here, and what is now may not really be now: place and time are malleable, and everything is seen through a haze of probabilities, rather than with certainty.”
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“[Davidson] Black procured cadavers for research, obtained from the Peking police department. These cadavers were mostly of people who had been executed for various crimes; the police regularly sent Black truckloads of the bodies of the executed convicts. Execution in China was by beheading, and thus the cadavers Black received lacked heads and had mutilated necks. After some time, he asked the police whether there was any possibility of getting better dead bodies for research - corpses that were intact. The next day, he received a shipment of convicts, all chained together, with a note from the police asking him to kill them in any way he chose.”
― The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
― The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
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