The Beginning of Infinity

Despite the stars’ and galaxies’ distance from the Earth, human beings know a lot about them, and even more about Earth and themselves. People gained this knowledge through scientific explanations, which are uniquely human. Science, and the drive to explain things, fuels human progress at every level – and, thus Oxford physicist David Deutsch insists, human progress has no limits.

Explanations

Real progress began in the 17th century during the Enlightenment, which embraced science, technology, ethics, politics and every aspect of human existence, thus enabling the search for explanations of reality.