We will get to as many as we can and if youre interested in purchasing the knowledge machine its available in most retailers. If youre a longtime follower of Library Programming either in person or online, you know that we lean heavily on the humanity. But tonight we turn our attention to the sciences with heavy dose of humanities. Our guest dr. Stevens, professor in new york his book the knowledge machine. The book begins with a simple question with a not at all simple answer. Why did it take 2,000 years after invention of philosophy and mathematic for humans to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe, the answer as it turns out might also help us better understand why we should have more faith in the Scientific Community. Dr. Stevens thank you very much for joining us. Thanks very much. Great to be here. I will talk a little bit about this book and what im setting out to do. I wrote the book to answer two Big Questions that i had about science. One of those questions
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