But What If We're Wrong?

ISBN: 0399184147
ISBN: 9780399184147
ISBN: 0399184120
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource ()
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group 2016.

Summary: We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure--until, of course, they don't. -- But What If We're Wrong? From the Hardcover edition.