Cosmic Joy and Local Pain: Musings of a Mystic Scientist

by Harold J. Morowitz

Integrating science, philosophy, and religion, the author shows the reader how to look at the most basic phenomena of life in new ways

321 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1987

About the author

Harold Joseph Morowitz was an American biophysicist who studied the application of thermodynamics to living systems. Author of numerous books and articles, his work includes technical monographs as well as essays. The origin of life was his primary research interest for more than fifty years. He was the Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Philosophy at George Mason University after a long career at Yale.