Breakthrough How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown

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A wondrous hymn to the scientific method, and some of its most profound discoveries, and what it can teach us all about how to live better and richer lives. ― Prof. Lewis Dartnell, author of Being Human

A scientist's journey from observation to discovery is anything but straightforward. It is littered with failure, unexpected diversions and joyous realizations. Science helps us to understand ourselves - but what we know about the world around us, what has already been explored and discovered, is only half of science's story.

Dr Camilla Pang will look at some of the biggest mysteries facing science today and how some of the best, most cutting-edge scientists can illuminate our own approaches to observation, hypothesis, exploration, troubleshooting and discovery in our own lives. Breakthrough explores the frontier between what we do and don't know about the world: where knowledge meets mystery, complexity overwhelms certainty, and the vastness of our universe unspools the logic of science's established laws.

There's a scientist hidden inside all of us. Science's greatest gift to us is not formulae but enabling the urge to discover that makes us truly human.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780241545331
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Viking
Pub date:
DEWEY: 001.42
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 246
Weight: 348g
Height: 224mm
Width: 144mm
Spine width: 24mm