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The Upright Thinkers

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What’s it about?

A sweeping history of human curiosity, revealing how we evolved from survival-driven creatures to beings who unravel the universe's laws—and why scientific thinking is a hard-won cultural achievement.

You’ll learn

  • Science is a rebellion against our own cognitive biases
  • How Galileo pioneered experimental thinking
  • Why Newton's success became a new dogma
  • The scientific method as a tool for life