by John D. Mays
NB: I first published this essay in 2010 in my old Novare Newsletter. Recently, someone was looking for this article, so this seems like an appropriate time for republishing it.
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by John D. Mays
For me, 2023 has been a year of wonder, textbooks both new and soon to be new, and anticipation of semi-retirement. I thought it would be appropriate here to post some thoughts on t...
by John Mays
Readers of this page probably know that Novare Science is presently working on a new Environmental Science text to be published in 2025. Our authors, Mark and Karen McReynolds, have co...
by John Mays
My remarks in this post owe a lot to two books. The first is David Bentley Hart’s The Beauty of the Infinite (2003), perhaps the most difficult and demanding book I have ever read. (St...
by John Mays
People who know me know that I spend a lot of time talking about wonder. Plato and Aristotle both wrote that "wonder is the beginning of philosophy." Wonder should be the beginning of ...
