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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... structure. Atoms are assembled into complex molecules; these react, via complex pathways in every cell, and indirectly lead to the entire interconnected structure that makes up a tree, an insect or a human. We straddle the cosmos and ...
... structure. Atoms are assembled into complex molecules; these react, via complex pathways in every cell, and indirectly lead to the entire interconnected structure that makes up a tree, an insect or a human. We straddle the cosmos and ...
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... structures: it would be dull, and certainly not habitable. And there must be long timespans as well. Processes in an atom may take a millionth of a billionth of a second to be completed; within the central nucleus of each atom, events ...
... structures: it would be dull, and certainly not habitable. And there must be long timespans as well. Processes in an atom may take a millionth of a billionth of a second to be completed; within the central nucleus of each atom, events ...
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... structures to develop. Gravity is the organizing force for the cosmos ... [It] is crucial in allowing structure to unfold from a Big Bang that was initially almost featureless. But it is only because it is weak compared with other ...
... structures to develop. Gravity is the organizing force for the cosmos ... [It] is crucial in allowing structure to unfold from a Big Bang that was initially almost featureless. But it is only because it is weak compared with other ...
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... structure of change is decay. What decays is not the quantity but the quality of energy. I shall explain what is meant by high quality energy, but for the present think of it as energy that is localized, and potent to effect change. In ...
... structure of change is decay. What decays is not the quantity but the quality of energy. I shall explain what is meant by high quality energy, but for the present think of it as energy that is localized, and potent to effect change. In ...
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... structure, as in the opening of a flower); but at root, all there is, is degradation by dispersal. Suppose that in some region there are many more places for energy to accumulate than elsewhere. Then jostling and random leaping results ...
... structure, as in the opening of a flower); but at root, all there is, is degradation by dispersal. Suppose that in some region there are many more places for energy to accumulate than elsewhere. Then jostling and random leaping results ...
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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