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Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
Stuart Firestein
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Description for Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
Hardback. Failure is a book that seeks to make science more appealing by exposing its faults. In this sequel to Ignorance, Stuart Firestein shows us that scientific enterprise is riddled with failures, and that this is not only necessary but good. Num Pages: 304 pages, With illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA; PDX; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 185 x 29. Weight in Grams: 348.
The pursuit of science by professional scientists every day bears less and less resemblance to the perception of science by the general public. It is not the rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts that dominates the public view. Rather it is the idiosyncratic, often bumbling search for understanding in mostly uncharted places. It is full of wrong turns, cul-de-sacs, mistaken identities, false findings, errors of fact and judgment-and the occasional remarkable success. The widespread but distorted view of science as infallible originates in an education system that teaches nothing but facts using very large, very ... Read more
The pursuit of science by professional scientists every day bears less and less resemblance to the perception of science by the general public. It is not the rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts that dominates the public view. Rather it is the idiosyncratic, often bumbling search for understanding in mostly uncharted places. It is full of wrong turns, cul-de-sacs, mistaken identities, false findings, errors of fact and judgment-and the occasional remarkable success. The widespread but distorted view of science as infallible originates in an education system that teaches nothing but facts using very large, very ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
350g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199390106
SKU
V9780199390106
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About Stuart Firestein
Stuart Firestein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where his highly popular course on ignorance invites working scientists to come talk to students each week about what they don't know. Dedicated to promoting science to a public audience, he serves as an advisor for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's program for the Public ... Read more
Reviews for Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
The book is very engaging and witty at times
Network Review
This book will certainly make for an interesting read for scientists ... but Failure might also be of interest to non-scientists
Katrina Kramer, Chemistry World
Engaging book ... his colloquial style ... is easy to read
Mark Greener, Fortean Times
A breath of ... Read more
Network Review
This book will certainly make for an interesting read for scientists ... but Failure might also be of interest to non-scientists
Katrina Kramer, Chemistry World
Engaging book ... his colloquial style ... is easy to read
Mark Greener, Fortean Times
A breath of ... Read more