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Chargement... The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice: and Other Classic Essays on Sciencepar Peter Medawar
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Blimey, that took longer than I thought it would - partly because, being composed of short articles, you need to digest each one separately and then decide when you feel like moving on to the next one, rather than being carried inexorably forward by the momentum of the narrative. I liked this a lot last time I read it and possibly even more this time; Medawar has a skewering way with words that he uses to cut Teilhard de Chardin down to size. Many bits were worth reading out loud to laugh along with; fantastic writing. I do wish he would have stopped with the continuous "he" usage; a bit late now to get him to change, but damn it does get kinda annoying. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Sir Peter Medawar was not only a Nobel prize-winning immunologist but also a wonderful writer about science and scientists. Described by the Washington Post as a `genuinely brilliant popularizer' of science, his essays are remarkable for their clarity and wit. This entertaining selectionpresents the very best of his writing with a new Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould, one of his greatest admirers. The wide range of subjects include Howard Florey and penicillin, J. B. S. Haldane, whom he describes as a `with-knobs-on variant of us all', and, in the title essay, scientific fraud involving laboratory mice. There is Medawar's defence of James Watson against the storm of criticism that greetedthe publication of The Double Helix. A merciless debunker of myths, he reveals the nonsense to be discovered in psychoanalytic interpretations of Darwin's illness and launches devastating attacks on Arthur Koestler, IQ psychologists, and, most notably, Teilhard de Chardin. He raises questions aboutthe nature of scientific endeavour - he famously defined science as the art of the soluble - and a common theme is his desire to communicate the importance of science to the widest possible audience. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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