The Oxford Book of Modern Science WritingSelected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whose works have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science. |
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But above all else, we find the universe terrifying because it appears to be indifferent to life like our own; emotion, ambition and achievement, art and religion all seem equally foreign to its plan. Perhaps indeed we ought to say it ...
But above all else, we find the universe terrifying because it appears to be indifferent to life like our own; emotion, ambition and achievement, art and religion all seem equally foreign to its plan. Perhaps indeed we ought to say it ...
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There is also what appears to be excessively subtle change, as in the formation of opinions and the creation and ... We shall see that what may appear to us to be motive and purpose is in fact ultimately motiveless, purposeless decay.
There is also what appears to be excessively subtle change, as in the formation of opinions and the creation and ... We shall see that what may appear to us to be motive and purpose is in fact ultimately motiveless, purposeless decay.
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301), which runs: Moreover, it does not appear that a change of climate, whether more or less genial, ... is that where it has yielded the greatest number of varieties. it appears that Darwin satisfied himself that the countries in ...
301), which runs: Moreover, it does not appear that a change of climate, whether more or less genial, ... is that where it has yielded the greatest number of varieties. it appears that Darwin satisfied himself that the countries in ...
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It thus appears that, apart from dominance and linkage, including sex linkage, all the main characteristics of the Mendelian system flow from assumptions of particulate inheritance of the simplest character, and could have been deduced ...
It thus appears that, apart from dominance and linkage, including sex linkage, all the main characteristics of the Mendelian system flow from assumptions of particulate inheritance of the simplest character, and could have been deduced ...
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The conceptual framework of loci must therefore be conceived as made of several parts, and these are now identified, on evidence which appears to be singularly complete, with the dark- staining bodies or chromosomes which are to be seen ...
The conceptual framework of loci must therefore be conceived as made of several parts, and these are now identified, on evidence which appears to be singularly complete, with the dark- staining bodies or chromosomes which are to be seen ...
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Comentário do usuário - stretch - LibraryThingHow do you pick the best science writing of the twentieth century? Really it all comes down to a matter of opinion, which almost always results in the complaint and special pleading for authors and ... Ler resenha completa
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Comentário do usuário - JanetinLondon - LibraryThingI got this book from the library, thinking it would be a series of essays on different aspects of science. However, it turned out to be a completely different sort of book – short extracts from books ... Ler resenha completa
Conteúdo
PART II WHO SCIENTISTS ARE | 149 |
PART III WHAT SCIENTISTS THINK | 245 |
PART IV WHAT SCIENTISTS DELIGHT IN | 347 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 397 |
INDEX | 401 |
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Informações bibliográficas
| Título | The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing Oxford Landmark Science |
| Editor | Richard Dawkins |
| Editora | Oxford University Press, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0191550841, 9780191550843 |
| Num. págs. | 439 páginas |
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