Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein

Ignorance: How It Drives Science Stuart Firestein ebook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780199828074
Page: 208

Oct 25, 2012 - Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein "Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. A lot more like "farting around … in the dark." In this witty talk, Firestein gets to the heart of science as it is really practiced and suggests that we should value what we don't know -- or “high-quality ignorance” -- just as much as what we know. Just finished "The Quantum Universe" by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, before that it was "Ignorance: How It Drives Science" by Stuart Firestein, and "Five Billion Years of Solitude" by Lee Billings. Apr 30, 2014 - Our text is Stuart Firestein's book Ignorance: How It Drives Science. What we don't know leaves room for discovery. Don't expect to see water-based disk drives soon*). Mar 5, 2014 - As the oceans represent 70% of the earth's surface, that 'missing' heat is sure enough in the oceans, but not as heat but electrical energy. "Ignorance:How it drives science". Apr 22, 2012 - ignorance-firestein-book-cover 'Ignorance: How It Drives Science' by Stuart Firestein. Sep 29, 2012 - Gregory Benford, PhD (physicist and science fiction author) Stuart Firestein, MD (scientist and author, Ignorance: How it Drives Science) Harold Garner, PhD (physicist and government advisor) Daniel B. Mar 21, 2014 - The focus here is on ignorance-or doubt or uncertainty-as something that is made, maintained, and manipulated by means of certain arts and sciences. I expected more development of his ideas. Firestein is the Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. Aug 3, 2012 - He teaches a class on ignorance in science, and he's written a book based on the ideas in the class, Ignorance: How It drives Science. Aug 30, 2012 - Stuart Firestein, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University has recently published a book with the provocative title Ignorance: How It Drives Science. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science. Book is pretty good though not completely satisfying to me.