Curious Minds: How A Child Becomes A Scientist

Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. 236p. Measures 5.75x8.5 inches

Original essays by 27 scientists. Contributors include Nicholas Humphrey, David M. Buss, Robert M. Sapolsky, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Murry Gell-Mann, Alison Gopnik, Paul C. W. Davies, Freeman J. Dyson, Lee Smolin, Steven Pinker, Mary Catherine Bateson, Lynn Margulis and others.

From Publisher:

Some of the world's greatest scientists reveal how they discovered their vocation and became committed to a life of science. When We Were Kids is a book of original, autobiographical essays by twenty-seven scientists, including Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Lynn Margulis, Steven Pinker and Robert M. Sapolsky. Each writer attempts to identify that moment or those influences in his or her youth which triggered the determination to become a scientist. Was there a particular event or set of circumstances? To what extent did parents, peers of teachers contribute? Why mathematics rather than psychology; why biology rather than physics? What were the turning points, mistakes, epiphanies? Personal, passionate, revealing, enthralling, Curious minds tells as much about life as it does about science.

Product Info

ISBN: 0099469464

ISBN-13: 9780099469469

Publisher: Pantheon

Year: 2004

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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