Letters to a young scientist
"At a time when the survival of our species and the rest of the living world is more than ever linked to our understanding of science, Pulitzer-Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, both young and old alike. Throughout his storied ca...
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2013]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: You made the right choice
- I. The path to follow. First passion, then training ; Mathematics ; The path to follow
- II. The creative process. What is science? ; The creative process ; What it takes ; Most likely to succeed ; I never changed ; Archetypes of the scientific mind ; Scientists as explorers of the universe
- III. A life in science. A mentor and the start of a career ; The grails of field biology ; A celebration of audacity ; Know your subject, thoroughly
- IV. Theory and the big picture. Science as universal knowledge ; Searching for new worlds on Earth ; The making of theories ; Biological theory on a grand scale ; Theory in the real world
- V. Truth and ethics. The scientific ethic.
