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Ignorance : how it drives science

著者: Stuart Firestein
出版商: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
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"Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done. In fact, says Firestein, more often than not, science is like looking for a black cat in a dark room, and there may not be
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ISBN: 9780199828074 0199828075
OCLC号码: 752069074
描述: viii, 195 p. ; 19 cm.
内容: A short view of ignorance --
Finding out --
Limits, uncertainty, impossibility, and other minor problems --
Unpredicting --
The quality of ignorance --
You and ignorance --
Case histories.
责任: Stuart Firestein.
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Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science,  再读一些...

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