The Beginning of Infinity

Physicist David Deutsch makes an audacious claim: that good explanations, once found, have unlimited reach, and that human progress therefore has no inherent limit. Ranging across quantum physics, evolution, aesthetics, and politics, he argues that the growth of knowledge is the central fact of our universe and that problems are always soluble given the right ideas. Dense, optimistic, and mind-expanding, it rewards careful reading. Mark Zuckerberg picked it for his A Year of Books club.