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Author: John HorganPublisher: Perseus Books
ISBN-10: 0201626799Category: Science & Tech
ISBN-13: 9780201626797 --
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Publication Year: 1996Condition: Good
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Through conversations with the great scientist and philosophers of our age, John Horgan takes us on an odyssey to the limits of the most vital theories of science, theories of the human mind and artificial minds, of the beginning and end of the universe, of complexity and chaos, of the ultimate questions and their fateful answers.

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As a staff writer for Scientific American, John Horgan has a window on contemporary science unsurpassed in all the world. Who else routinely interviews the likes of Lynn Margulis, Roger Penrose, Francis Crick, Richard Dawkins, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Kuhn, Chris Langton, Karl Popper, Steven Weinberg, and E. O. Wilson, with the freedom to probe their innermost thoughts? This is the secret fear that Horgan pursues throughout this remarkable book: 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? Is the age of great discoveries behind us? Is science today reduced to mere puzzle solving and adding details to existing theories? Scientists have always set themselves apart from other scholars in the belief that they do not construct the truth, they discover it. Their work is not interpretation but simple revelation of what exists in the empirical universe. But science itself keeps imposing limits on its own power. Special relativity prohibits the transmission of matter or information at speeds faster than that of light; quantum mechanics dictates uncertainty; and chaos theory confirms the impossibility of complete prediction. Meanwhile, the very idea of scientific rationality is under fire from Neo-Luddites, animal-rights activists, religious fundamentalists, and New Agers alike. As Horgan makes clear, perhaps the greatest threat to science may come from losing its special place in the hierarchy of disciplines, being reduced to something more akin to literary criticism as more and more theoreticians engage in the theory twiddling hecalls "ironic science". Still, while Horgan offers his critique, grounded in the thinking of the world's leading researchers, he offers homage, too. If science is ending, he maintains, it is only because it has done its work so well.

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"John Horgan's gift is to persuade leading scientists to pour out their hearts to him, and then to think deeply and learnedly about their confessions - especially fearful intimations of the end of the great quest. This is a hugely entertaining book, certain to create controversy."
Catalog - Edward O. Wilson 

"Thanks to Mr. Horgan's smooth prose style (he is a staff writer for 'Scientific American'), puckish sense of humor and wicked eye for detail, these encounters make for zesty reading."
Wall Street Journal - Jim Holt 

"Mr. Horgan has a strong grasp of a broad spectrum of disciplines, and one of the best things about 'The End of Science' is that it is a wonderfully concise introduction to the greatest scientific hits of the last 15 or 20 years."
New York Times Book Review - Natalie Angier (06/30/1996)

"In this wonderful, provocative book, John Horgan a senior science writer at 'Scientific American', argues that the game is nearing the end."
Washington Post Book World - Robert L. Parker (08/11/1996)

"A hugely entertaining book, certain to create controversy."
Wilson 

"John Horgan buttonholes the most interesting scientists on the planet--and he listens, he argues, he thinks. He has an exceedingly accurate instinct for the side of science that isn't published in journals or taught in schools, and it's a privilege to be able to follow along as he peers behind the curtain."
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The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age (Helix Books)

John Horgan

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Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
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ISBN: 0201626799
Publication Date: 1996-05-12
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages: 320
Height: 1.2000 inches
Width: 6.8000 inches
Weight: 4.2500 pounds

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