Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2021-W34

“and now let me leave you some words from arthur c clarke, who is the author of 2001 a space odyssey it may be that our role on this planet is not to worship god but to create him”

“and i can give you all kinds of examples of that i once wrote a book on the origins of wave theory of light and that is one of the paradigmatic examples that tom used”

“and he had written a book in fact called the micrographia which by the way he used a microscope to make the first depictions of things like a fly's eye the structure of you know it had a big influence”

“there's two of them one's called the philosophical questions and the other is called the waste book”

“there's two of them one's called the philosophical questions and the other is called the waste book”

“a scholar uh who's a professor at indiana now uh named domenico melli got his hands on a leibnitz manuscript called the ten tammon which was leibniz's attempt to produce an alternative to newton's mechanics”

“in fact the second volume of newton's of the notes really on the great book that he published the optics which he published in 1704”

“but i think what i get from him is basic um it's like uh victor franco has a man search for meaning”

“and i kept reading like i think so his short stories the dead I think it's called was very good”

“but then ulysses was I I I got through ulysses with the help of some cliff notes and so on”

“You know you did all of this work before the thing that really catapulted you, which was The Help. You were amazing, just incredible.”