Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the UnknownMacmillan, 1 апр. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 336 Bestselling author Michael Shermer delves into the unknown, from heretical ideas about the boundaries of the universe to Star Trek's lessons about chance and time |
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... humans perceive news and history . . . . If your perceptions have ever rubbed you the wrong way , you'll find Science Friction fascinating . " - Bill Nye , The Science Guy SCIENCE FRICTION WHERE THE KNOWN MEETS THE UNKNOWN MICHAEL ...
... human biases and look in the eye truths about how the world works that conflict with the way we would like it to be . In Science Friction , Michael Shermer shines his beacon on a delicious range of subjects , often showing that the ...
... human dilemma of the search for mean- ing in an apparently meaningless cosmos : Into this Universe , and Why not ... humans are so prone to grasp for transcendent interconnectedness . As pattern - seeking primates we scan the random ...
... humanity's savior that would inau- gurate a " Great Instauration , " or a restoration of all natural knowledge through a proper blend of empiricism and reason , observation and logic , data and theory . Bacon was no naive utopian ...
... human thought endemic to all of us -- the tribe --- that place limits on knowledge ) . " Idols are the profoundest fallacies of the mind of man , " Bacon explained . " Nor do they deceive in particulars ... but from a corrupt and ...
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Index | 285 |
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Back Cover | 300 |