“The conflict between science and the humanities is notorious,” writes Nobel-prize-winning theorist Robert Laughlin in the very first footnote of his ambitious new book A Different Universe. The “two cultures” identified by C P Snow, who is cited in the same footnote, may still be with us, but many on both sides of the divide are making genuine efforts to bridge the gap.
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