Curious Minds
How a Child Becomes a Scientist
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Nov '13
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Some of the world's greatest scientists reveal how they discovered their vocation and became committed to a life of science.
Curious Minds is a book of original, autobiographical essays by twenty-seven scientists, including Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C.
Personal, passionate, revealing, enthralling, Curious Minds tells as much about life as it does about science.
Curious Minds is a book of original, autobiographical essays by twenty-seven scientists, including Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Lynn Margulis, Steven Pinker and Robert M. Sapolsky.
Each writer attempts to identify that moment or those influences in his or her youth which triggered the determination to become a scientist. Was there a particular event or set of circumstances? To what extent did parents, peers of teachers contribute? Why mathematics rather than psychology; why biology rather than physics? What were the turning points, mistakes, epiphanies?
Personal, passionate, revealing, enthralling, Curious Minds tells as much about life as it does about science.
An engrossing treat of a book... Crammed with hugely enjoyable anecdotes...You'll have a wonderful time reading these reminiscences * New Scientist *
These essays offer the idiosyncrasy and curiosity value that we expect of good, narrative history, combined with much fine writing... Absorbing and persuasive in just the way good stories are * Nature *
consistently enthralling memoirs by leading thinkers...the result is a remarkably dud-free collection * Observer *
ISBN: 9780099592877
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm
Weight: 181g
256 pages