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EPISODE · Jan 7, 2023 · 49 MIN

Rebecca Goldstein

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Alan Lightman: “One of my longtime friends is Rebecca Goldstein. Like me, she’s a scientist and a novelist. She started studying physics at university, but switched to philosophy. One of the things she wrote really speaks to me: ‘Science tells us what is. Philosophy tells us what matters. Rebecca Goldstein: ‘It’s a serious business… being human is a serious business.’ We spoke on an outdoor deck, high up in the Berkeley Hills in California, where she was spending several months.”

Alan Lightman: “One of my longtime friends is Rebecca Goldstein. Like me, she’s a scientist and a novelist. She started studying physics at university, but switched to philosophy. One of the things she wrote really speaks to me: ‘Science tells us what is. Philosophy tells us what matters. Rebecca Goldstein: ‘It’s a serious business… being human is a serious business.’ We spoke on an outdoor deck, high up in the Berkeley Hills in California, where she was spending several months.”

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