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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Eddington concluded that: 'When we draw aside the veil of clouds beneath which our physicist is working and let him look up at the sky, there he will find a thousand million globes of gas, nearly all with [these] masses.
Eddington concluded that: 'When we draw aside the veil of clouds beneath which our physicist is working and let him look up at the sky, there he will find a thousand million globes of gas, nearly all with [these] masses.
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But, surely, Re as well as Thomas Jefferson knew that brothers very often look and act unlike. Brothers, though dissimilar, are yet equal in their rights to share in the patrimony of their fathers.
But, surely, Re as well as Thomas Jefferson knew that brothers very often look and act unlike. Brothers, though dissimilar, are yet equal in their rights to share in the patrimony of their fathers.
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It was left to the distinguished American biologist George C. Williams to apply the same insight clearly to adaptation, the tendency of living organisms to look as though they were designed for a . 27 G. C. WILLIAMS G. C. Williams from ...
It was left to the distinguished American biologist George C. Williams to apply the same insight clearly to adaptation, the tendency of living organisms to look as though they were designed for a . 27 G. C. WILLIAMS G. C. Williams from ...
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organisms to look as though they were designed for a purpose. Before Williams's 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection, the cui bono question (for whose benefit do adaptations evolve?) was likely to be answered by some vague ...
organisms to look as though they were designed for a purpose. Before Williams's 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection, the cui bono question (for whose benefit do adaptations evolve?) was likely to be answered by some vague ...
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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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