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Want to read. Bought for myself, it's waiting around to be read.
Includes:[]
Part 1: "What Scientists Study"[]
- Extract from The Mysterious Universe, James Jeans
- Extract from Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees
- Extract from Creation Revisited, Peter Atkins
- Extract from The Ant and the Peacock, Helena Cronin
- Extract from The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, R. A. Fisher
- Extract from Mankind Evolving, Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Extract from Adaptation and Natural Selection, G. C. Williams
- Extract from Life Itself, Francis Crick
- Extract from Genome, Matt Ridley
- Theoretical Biology in the Third Millenium, Sydney Brenner
- Extract from The Language of the Genes, Steve Jones
- Extract from On Being the Right Size, J. B. S. Haldane
- Extract from The Explanation of Organic Diversit, Mark Ridley
- The Importance of the Nervous System in the Evolution of Animal Flight, John Maynard Smith
- Extract from Man in the Universe, Fred Hoyle
- Extract from On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson
- Extract from The Meaning of Evolution, G. G. Simpson
- Extract from Trilobite!, Richard Fortey
- Extract from The Mind Machine, Colin Blakemore
- Extract from Mirrors in Mind, Richard Gregory
- One Self: A Meditation on the Unity of Consciousness, Nicholas Humphrey
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- Extracts from The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker
- Extract from The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond
- Extract from The Life of the Robin, David Lack
- Extract from Curious Naturalists, Niko Tinbergen
- Extract from Social Evolution, Robert Trivers
- Extract from The Open Sea, Alister Hardy
- Extract from The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson
- Extract from How Flowers Changed the World, Loren Eiseley
- Extract from The Diversity of Life, Edward O. Wilson
Part 2: "Who Scientists Are"[]
- Extract from The Expanding Universe, Arthur Eddington
- Extract from the foreword to A Mathematician's Apology (G. H. Hardy) by C. P. Snow
- Extract from The Disturbing Universe, Freeman Dyson
- Extract from War and the Nations, J. Robert Oppenheimer
- A Passion for Crystals, Max F. Perutz
- Said Ryle to Hoyle, Barbara and George Gamow
- Cancer's a Funny Thing, J. B. S. Haldane
- Extract from The Identity of Man, Jacob Bronowski
- Extracts from Science and Literature, Darwin's Illness, The Phenomenon of Man, the postscript to Lucky Jim, and D'Arcy Thompson and Growth *and Form, Peter Medawar
- Extract from Self-Made Man, Jonathan Kingdon
- Extract from Origins Reconsidered, Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin
- Extract from Lucy, Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey
- Worm for a Century, and All Seasons, Stephen Jay Gould
- Extract from Life Cycles, John Tyler Bonner
- Extract from Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks
- Seven Wonders, Lewis Thomas
- Extract from Avoid Boring People, James Watson
- Extract from What Mad Pursuit, Francis Crick
- Extract from The Unnatural Nature of Science, Lewis Wolpert
- Extract from Essays of a Biologist, Julian Huxley
- Religion and Science, Albert Einstein
- Extract from The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
Part 3: "What Scientists Think"[]
- Extract from The Character of Physical Law, Richard Feynman
- Extract from What is Life?, Erwin Schrodinger
- Extracts from Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained, Dan Dennett
- Extract from The Growth of Biological Thought, Ernst Mayr
- Extract from The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin
- Extract from Geometry of the Selfish Herd and Narrow Roads of Geneland, Bill Hamilton
- Extract from How Nature Works, Per Bak
- Fantastic Combinations of John Conway's New Solitaire Game 'Life', Martin Gardner
- Extract from Mathematics for the Million, Lancelot Hogben
- Extract from The Miraculous Jar, Ian Stewart
- Extract from The Mathematical Theory of Communication, Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver
- Extract from Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing
- Extract from What is the Theory of Relativity?, Albert Einstein
- Extract from Mr Tompkins, George Gamow
- Extract from The Goldilocks Enigma, Paul Davies
- Extract from The Time and Space of Uncle Albert, Russell Stannard
- Extract from The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
- Extract from A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
Part 4: "What Scientists Delight In"[]
- Extract from Truthe and Beauty, S. Chandrasekhar
- Extract from A Mathematician's Apology, G. H. Hardy
- Extract from Dreams of a Final Theory, Steven Weinberg
- Extract from The Life of the Cosmos, Lee Smolin
- Extract from The Emperor's New Mind, Roger Penrose
- Extract from Gödel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter
- Extract from Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam, John Archibald Wheeler and Kenner Ford
- Extract from The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch
- Extract from The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
- Extract from Life: An Unauthorized Biography, Richard Fortey
- Extract from The Meaning of Evolution, George Gaylord Simpson
- Extract from Little Men and Flying Saucers, Loren Eiseley
- Extract from Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan
Journal[]
08/07/2010: Read "Extract from Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter". Disappointed, was hoping it would be dead interesting but it was just a silly story with some punchline to do with Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.