"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achi…
We all make mistakes. Nobody is perfect. And that includes five of the greatest scientists in history -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, Albert Einstein. But the mistakes that these great scientists made helped science to advance.
Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achie…
""Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to ach…
"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists ... Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein ... scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to ac…
"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achi…
Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein all made groundbreaking contributions to their fields -- but each also stumbled badly. Darwin's theory of natural selection shouldn't have worked, according to the prevailing beliefs of…
"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achi…
What to think about machines that think: today's leading thinkers on the age of machine in…
by Pinker, Steven, Davies, P. C. W., Rees, Martin J., Livio, Mario, Shanahan, Murray, Markoff, John, Lisi, Antony Garrett, Omohundro, Stephen M., (Stephen Malvern), Sasselov, Dimitar D., Tipler, Frank J.
Collects the thoughts of almost two hundred of today's leading thinkers on the issue of artifical intelligence.
What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine In…
by Pinker, Steven, Davies, P. C. W., Rees, Martin J., Livio, Mario, Shanahan, Murray, Markoff, John, Lisi, Antony Garrett, Omohundro, Stephen M., (Stephen Malvern), Sasselov, Dimitar D., Tipler, Frank J.
Collects the thoughts of almost two hundred of today's leading thinkers on the issue of artificial intelligence.
"This is a fascinating examination of perhaps our most human characteristic, our innate curiosity, our deep desire to know why. Why are we more distracted by a cell-phone conversation, where we can hear only one side of the dialogue, than by an overheard argument between two peo…
Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics{8212}curiosity{8212}as he explores our innate desire to know why.
Livio investigates curiosity through the lives of paragons of inquisitiveness as Leonardo da Vinci and Richard Feynman. He interviewed a range of exceptionally curious people from an astronaut with degrees in statistics, medicine, and literature to a rock guitarist with a PhD in…