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Author: Daniel James Sharp

Daniel James Sharp is a student and writer. He reviews books for Areo Magazine and has contributed to various other outlets, including Quillette and Arc Digital.

Humanism and Science
Faith and the Closing of the Universe
Free Inquiry Volume 40, No. 4
June / July 2020
Daniel James Sharp

In his 2012 memoir Joseph Anton, Salman Rushdie, borrowing the words of Saul Bellow, posited that the writer’s task is to “open the universe a little more.” This has always struck me as beautiful and true as well as simple. It would also do as a nice description of the scientist’s job. Herein lies that …

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