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Modern science, which appeared in the seventeenth century, has changed our civilization so radically that even the most superficial human ideas about reality are saturated with its achievements, like a rum baba with rum. Careless questions about life and wonder at simple things lead people who are very far from science to the very sources of its ideas. The history of science is not only the development of ideas that have shaped our world, but also a sentimental adventure of people who, in search of keys to reality, ventured into spheres very far from science and found inspiration in poetry and literature, art and culture, mysticism and religion. In our course, we will follow the paths along which very sentimental and human desires were embodied in key scientific theories. We will talk about the connections between science and poetry, mathematics and tenderness, cosmology and home economics, physics and magic, choosing as interlocutors both the classics: Dante, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Euler, Einstein, Heisenberg and Bohr, and contemporaries: Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend, Ilya Prigogine and Eric Kandel, Vilayanur Ramachandran and Vyacheslav Ivanov, Bill Bryson and Oliver Sacks. Our goal: a sentimental history of ideas as an introduction to the world of science, in which the connection between the searching brain and the excited heart is restored.