Scientifically speaking : a dictionary of quotations
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Scientifically speaking : a dictionary of quotations
Institute of Physics Pub., c2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-388) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In these days of ever-increasing specialization, it is important to gain a broad appreciation of science. Entertaining and informative, Scientifically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations, Second Edition contains the words and wisdom of several hundred scientists, writers, philosophers, poets, and academics. The largest compilation of published science quotations available, the book presents quotations that give depth and breadth to science, and provides the visions and styles of scientists past and present. The bibliography is useful if you want more details about the quotations listed. The extensive author and subject indexes provide the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure. This book can be read for entertainment or used as a handy reference.
Table of Contents
- Abstraction
- administration of science
- aesthetics
- age of science
- analogy
- answer
- anti-science
- applied science
- axioms
- beauty
- books
- chaos
- common sense
- communication in science
- concepts
- data
- definition discovery
- dogma
- error
- ethics
- experience
- experiment
- facts
- failure
- formula
- funding
- God
- history of science
- hypothesis
- imagination
- induction
- information
- instruments
- intuition
- invention
- irrational
- knowledge
- language
- laws
- literature
- logic
- magic
- man of science
- measurement
- metaphor
- method
- myth
- observation
- Occam's razor
- paradigm
- paradox
- prayer
- prediction
- probable error
- problems
- progress of science
- proof
- propositions
- publications
- questions
- reality
- reason
- relations
- research
- rules
- savant
- science
- science and art
- science and freedom
- science and God
- science and morals
- science and philosophy
- science and poetry
- science and politics
- science and religion
- science and women
- scientific
- scientific glossary
- scientific papers
- scientist
- solution
- technology
- temple of science
- theory
- truth
- understanding. m
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