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Appleyard, Bryan

Bryan Appleyard was educated at Bolton School and King’s College, Cambridge. He is the author of many books and, because of his journalism for The Times and Sunday Times, in 2019 was awarded a CBE for services to journalism and the arts.

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20251201100053 Bryan Appleyard on When We Cease to Understand the World

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Bryan Appleyard on Benjamin Labatut When We Cease to Understand the World

We ended the twentieth century knowing less about the world than we did at the beginning. Physicists had robbed us of certainty. Newton and Faraday had lulled us into a false sense of security, then Schrödinger and Heisenberg pulled the cosmic rug from under our feet. In the twenty-first century how the cosmos is made and how it works have become impenetrable mysteries. Of course, the better- known disaster of the last century was murder on an industrial scale.

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