Science is pursuit of truth, and if you're proved wrong you're happy to be proved wrong.
Today it is pursuit of profit without moral compass or responsibility.
The story I'm talking about is pursuit of unknowable, as distinctly opposed to the pursuit of something that is simply unknown.
His newest, the first in eight years, is "Pursuit of a Woman on the Hinge of History". Like his "Acts of Faith," which appeared in 1986, this novel could be described as a metaphysical thriller.
But the alternative to the pursuit of riches is pursuit of a richer vision: neither austerity nor excessive wealth, but rather "sufficiency plus", where needs are met, and then some, while a fuller understating of human welfare is championed.
Geophysics has major influence both as a field of pure science in which the objective is pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and as an applied science in which the objectives involve solution of problems of practical or commercial interest.
