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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... ideas of all science—C. P. Snow's litmus test of scientific culture—the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Atkins shows how the universal downhill degradation towards disorder can be harnessed locally to drive processes uphill (the principle ...
... ideas of all science—C. P. Snow's litmus test of scientific culture—the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Atkins shows how the universal downhill degradation towards disorder can be harnessed locally to drive processes uphill (the principle ...
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... idea. But we should not let pass without emphasis the word probability. The energy just might by chance jostle back into its original heap, and a structure reform. The energy just might, by chance, jostle its way back into the block ...
... idea. But we should not let pass without emphasis the word probability. The energy just might by chance jostle back into its original heap, and a structure reform. The energy just might, by chance, jostle its way back into the block ...
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... idea of biology itself, Darwinian evolution. □ We are walking archives of ancestral wisdom. Our bodies and minds are live monuments to our forebears' rare successes. This Darwin has taught us. The human eye, the brain, our instincts ...
... idea of biology itself, Darwinian evolution. □ We are walking archives of ancestral wisdom. Our bodies and minds are live monuments to our forebears' rare successes. This Darwin has taught us. The human eye, the brain, our instincts ...
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... idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity. mahatma gandhi 'I have made the four winds that every man might breathe there-of like his brother during ...
... idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity. mahatma gandhi 'I have made the four winds that every man might breathe there-of like his brother during ...
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... idea to which I later gave the title The Selfish Gene—although as it happened my original influence came from W. D. Hamilton (see below) rather than Williams. The extract reproduced here is Williams's vivid and persuasive way of ...
... idea to which I later gave the title The Selfish Gene—although as it happened my original influence came from W. D. Hamilton (see below) rather than Williams. The extract reproduced here is Williams's vivid and persuasive way of ...
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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