God, science and knowledge: Knowing it all from The Economist: Full print edition

A counterblast to Stephen Hawking: The End of Discovery: Are We Approaching the Boundaries of the Knowable? By Russell Stannard. OUP; 228 pages; $24.95 and GBP14.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk: REPORTS of the death of science have been greatly exaggerated—at least, that has proved to be the case so far. A British physicist, Lord Kelvin, is supposed to have said in 1900, “there is nothing new to be discovered in physics now, all that remains is more and more precise measurement.” But then along came general relativity and quantum mechanics that proved him wrong. A bestselling book titled “The End of Science” by John Horgan, an American science journalist, was published in 1996, but there are no signs of the stuff abating. In “The End of Discovery”, Russell Stannard once again predicts its demise...

Read the full Economist (print edition) story here. See also: The End of the Search: Discovery and Encounter With the Divine, Portrait of America: From the European Discovery of America to the End of Reconstruction, The Grand Design