Ignorance : how it drives science / Stuart Firestein.
- Firestein, Stuart.
- Date:
- [2012], ©2012
- Books
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Description
"Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Firestein takes the novel perspective that Ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery"-- Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Physical description
viii, 195 pages ; 19 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A short view of ignorance -- Finding out -- Limits, uncertainty, impossibility, and other minor problems -- Unpredicting -- The quality of ignorance -- You and ignorance -- Case histories.
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionQ175.32.K45 2012F57iOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780199828074
- 0199828075