The writings of more than 60 authors including Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Pierre Curie, Primo Levi and James Gleick, are represented in this volume. Each expresses a perspective on the Sciences.
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... IF, IN SOME cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
giant molecular complex, absolute event horizon, characteristic expansion time, apparent faintness, cosmical repulsion, discrete state machines, spiral features, percent neutrons, percent protons, observable region, comet showers, submicroscopic world, homologous core, neutral atomic hydrogen, primordial black holes, solar system condensed, elliptical space, new quantum theory, supernova rate, modular equations, loss cone, electromagnetic mass, imitation game, gauge particles, solar masses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milky Way, Los Alamos, New York, Nobel Prize, United States, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, Mount Wilson, Niels Bohr, Stephen Hawking, Father Paulini, Isaac Newton, Max Planck, Oort Cloud, New Mexico, Robert Wilson, University of Chicago, Max Born, Abdus Salam, California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Cosmic Censorship, Physical Review, Richard Feynman, Cambridge University New!
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... IF, IN SOME cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
giant molecular complex, absolute event horizon, characteristic expansion time, apparent faintness, cosmical repulsion, discrete state machines, spiral features, percent neutrons, percent protons, observable region, comet showers, submicroscopic world, homologous core, neutral atomic hydrogen, primordial black holes, solar system condensed, elliptical space, new quantum theory, supernova rate, modular equations, loss cone, electromagnetic mass, imitation game, gauge particles, solar masses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milky Way, Los Alamos, New York, Nobel Prize, United States, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, Mount Wilson, Niels Bohr, Stephen Hawking, Father Paulini, Isaac Newton, Max Planck, Oort Cloud, New Mexico, Robert Wilson, University of Chicago, Max Born, Abdus Salam, California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Cosmic Censorship, Physical Review, Richard Feynman, Cambridge University New!
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- Novum Organum (Spanish Edition) by Francis Bacon on page 798, page 818, and page 820
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking on page 226, page 386, and Back Matter
- The Computer and the Brain: Second Edition (Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures) by John von Neumann on page 478, and Back Matter
- Essays In Science by Albert Einstein on page 564, and page 576
- Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Galaxy Books) by Morris Kline on page 520, and Back Matter
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