Impossibility

  • John D. Barrow
Oxford University Press: 1998. Pp.279 £18.99, $25

To those enamoured of the belief that the human spirit knows no bounds or limitations, a tour of twentieth-century science must be a rather depressing experience. If there is any common denominator running through the scientific breakthroughs of our age it is the idea that there are limits.

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