The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Shape of Wonder by Alan Lightman and Martin Rees

A book like this shouldn’t really be necessary. If we all had a shared understanding of why science matters, what it is and all the things scientists contribute to our society (and have for centuries in the past), then many of the arguments in this book would feel obvious and perhaps even repetitive. Unfortunately, our world isn’t that way. Today trust in science itself is routinely undermined by non-scientist personalities who build cults around themselves and encourage the belief that only the...