Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein: Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe (Audio)
ISBN:
9781480517813 (148051781X)
Publish date: May 14th 2013
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Edition language: English
bookshelves: autumn-2015, nonfiction, nonfic-nov-2015, sciences, history-of-science, published-2013, tbr-busting-2015, under-1000-ratings, too-loud-man Read from September 09, 2013 to November 23, 2015 Description: Drawing on the lives of five renowned scientists, Mario Livio shows how even the...
This book is really "Brilliant Blunderers", or, in a less catchy but more accurate phrase, "Smart People sometimes make stupid mistakes". Which is not exactly news. But it does make the greats of science seem more human.I felt during the whole book that the author was really reaching for his thesi...
The author writes in a straightforward manner and explains the science in a highly entertaining manner. If I ever sit next to somebody in a waffle house who starts talking about his life stories, I can easily pivot into one of the five stories splendidly presented in this book. The writer was that g...
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