The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age | Horgan John | Keménykötésű

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ENbook.hu

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Basic Books

pAs staff writer for emScientific American, em John Horgan has a window on contemporary science unsurpassed in all the world. Who else routinely interviews the likes of Lynn Margulis, Roger Penrose, Francis Crick, Richard Dawkins, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Kuhn, Chris Langton, Karl Popper, Stephen Weinberg, and E.O. Wilson, with the freedom to probe their innermost thoughts In emThe End Of Science, em Horgan displays his genius for getting these larger-than-life figures to be simply human, and scientists, he writes, are rarely so human . . . so at there mercy of their fears and desires, as when they are confronting the limits of knowledge.This is the secret fear that Horgan pursues throughout this remarkable book Have the big questions all been answered Has all the knowledge worth pursuing become known Will there be a final theory of everything that signals emthe endem Is the age of great discoverers behind us Is science today reduced t

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