In a series of interviews with luminaries of modern science,
Scientific American senior editor John Horgan conducted a guided
tour of the scientific world and where it might be headed in The
End of Science. The book, which generated great controversy and
became a bestseller, now appears in paperback with a new afterword
by the author. Through a series of essays in which he visits with
such figures as Roger Penrose, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking,
Freeman Dyson, and others, Horgan capt
內容簡介：
As a writer for SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, John Horgan has an
unsurpassed window on contemporary science, routinely interviewing
the scientific geniuses of our times, scientists such as Richard
Dawkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking, Karl Popper and Noam
Chomsky. In THE END OF SCIENCE, Horgan displays his genius for
getting these larger-than-life figures to be human, whilst also
encouraging them to confront the very limits of knowledge. Have the
big questions all been answered? Has all the knowledge worth
pursuing become known? Will there be a final ''theory of everything''
that signals the end? Horgan extracts surprisingly candid answers
to these and other delicate questions as he discusses God, Star
Trek, superstrings, quarks, consciousness and numerous other
topics. In a time where scientific rationality is under fire from
every quarter, THE END OF SCIENCE is a witty, thoughtful, profound
and entertaining narrative which serves as both a critique of and a
homage to modern science.
關於作者：
John Horgan is a senior writer at SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. His
articles have appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW REPUBLIC,
DISCOVER, NEW SCIENTIST and OMNI. He lives in New York State''s
Hudson Valley with his wife and two children.
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