Book · recommended on 1 episode
Probable Impossibilities / The Accidental Universe
Alan Lightman
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Alan Lightman
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This book by Alan Lightman came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Russ Roberts. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“alan lightman the physicist has a wonderful book on this he's an atheist but he talks about lying in a boat looking up at the stars”— Russ Roberts
The guest here is Russ Roberts: President of Shalem College in Jerusalem, Hoover Institution research fellow, host of the EconTalk podcast, and author of Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us. Economist Russ Roberts on why life's biggest decisions can't be solved with cost-benefit analysis, and what makes a life well lived.
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