Title
Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe / Mario Livio.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781439192368
1439192367
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Language
English
Description
341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
Q172.5.E77 L58 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
500
Summary
"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 achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index.
Mistakes and blunders
The origin
Yea, all which I inherit, shall dissolve
How old is the Earth?
Certainty generally is illusion
Interpreter of life
Whose DNA is it anyway?
B for big bang
The same throughout eternity?
The "biggest blunder"
Out of empty space.
