The Beginning of Infinity

The New York Times bestseller: A provocative imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge“Dazzling.” – Steven Pinker The Guardian. In this groundbreaking book award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe—and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all successful human endeavor. Taking us on a journey through every fundamental field of science as well as the history of civilization art moral values and the theory of political institutions Deutsch tracks how we form new explanations and drop bad ones explaining the conditions under which progress—which he argues is potentially boundless—can and cannot happen. Hugely ambitious and highly original The Beginning of Infinity explores and establishes deep connections between the laws of nature the human condition knowledge and the possibility for progress.