The Oxford Book of Modern Science WritingRichard Dawkins Oxford University Press, 13 de mar. de 2008 - 439 páginas Selected 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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... 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 appears to be actively hostile to life like our own. For the ...
... 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 appears to be actively hostile to life like our own. For the ...
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... appears to be excessively subtle change, as in the formation of opinions and the creation and rejection of ideas ... appear to us to be motive and purpose is in fact ultimately motiveless, purposeless decay. Aspirations, and their ...
... appears to be excessively subtle change, as in the formation of opinions and the creation and rejection of ideas ... appear to us to be motive and purpose is in fact ultimately motiveless, purposeless decay. Aspirations, and their ...
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... appear that a change of climate, whether more or less genial, is one of the most potent causes of variability; for ... appears that Darwin satisfied himself that the countries in which animals or plants were first domesticated, were at ...
... appear that a change of climate, whether more or less genial, is one of the most potent causes of variability; for ... appears that Darwin satisfied himself that the countries in which animals or plants were first domesticated, were at ...
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... appear in a quarter of the offspring, the remaining half being heterozygous. It thus appears that, apart from dominance and linkage, including sex linkage, all the main characteristics of the Mendelian system flow from assumptions of ...
... appear in a quarter of the offspring, the remaining half being heterozygous. It thus appears that, apart from dominance and linkage, including sex linkage, all the main characteristics of the Mendelian system flow from assumptions of ...
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... appears to be singularly complete, with the dark- staining bodies or chromosomes which are to be seen in the nuclei of cells at certain stages of cell division. The mechanism of particulate inheritance is evidently suitable for ...
... appears to be singularly complete, with the dark- staining bodies or chromosomes which are to be seen in the nuclei of cells at certain stages of cell division. The mechanism of particulate inheritance is evidently suitable for ...
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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