The End Of Science

In his book The End of Science, John Horgan makes the case that the era of truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our place in it is over. Interviewing scientific luminaries such as Stephen Hawking and Francis Crick, he demonstrates that all the big questions that can be answered have been answered. The world cannot give us a “theory of everything,” and modern endeavors such as string theory are “ironic" and "theological" in nature, not scientific because they are impossible to confirm. Horgan's argument was controversial in 1996 and remains so today, still firing up debates in labs and on the internet—not least because ironic science is more prevalent than ever.