End Of Science
facing the limits of knowledge in the twilight of the scientific age
$79.83
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2015
Summary
In 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, Francis Crick, and Richard Dawkins, he demonstrates that all the big questions that can be answered have been answered, as science bumps up against fundamental limits. The world cannot give us a “theory of everything,” and modern endeavors such as string theory are “ironic” and “theol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780465065929 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0465065929 |
| Author: | John Horgan |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2015 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 141mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
E. O. Wilson, Harvard University “Hugely entertaining.” Washington Post Book World “In this wonderful, provocative book… Horgan’s approach is to take us along while he buttonholes several dozen of earth’s crankiest, most opinionated, most exasperating scientists to get their views on where science is and where it’s going… They all come to life in Horgan’s narrative.” Associated Press “An unauthorized biography of science.” Business Week “A deft wordsmith and keen observer, Horgan offers lucid expositions of everything from superstring theory and Thomas Kuhn’s analysis of scientific revolutions to the origin of life and sociobiology.”
About The Author
John Horgan
John Horgan, a science journalist, writes the “Cross-check” blog for Scientific American, and directs the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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