# Impossibility: The Limits of Science

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor John D Barrow FRS
- Year: 2006
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/impossibility-limits-science)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Are there limits to science? We look first at the questions which 19th-century commentators claimed would never be answered. Then we explore the different types of limits – practical, computational, and fundamental – that constrain what we can know about the universe. Some of these limits are consequences of our nature, some are consequences of the universe’s nature, while others are consequences of the nature of knowledge itself.

## Lectures

1. [Impossibility: The Limits of Science](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/impossibility-limits-science/84484edb5995) (YouTube)