On Being
A scientist's exploration of the great questions of existence
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2012
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-966054-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-966054-4 (ISBN)
In this short book Peter Atkins considers the universal questions to which religions have claimed answers. With economy, wit, and elegance, unswerving before awkward realities, Atkins presents what science has to say. While acknowledging the comfort some find in belief, he declares his own faith in science's capacity to reveal the deepest truths.
In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed answers. With his usual economy, wit, and elegance, unswerving before awkward realities, Atkins presents what science has to say. While acknowledging the comfort some find in belief, he declares his own faith in science's capacity to reveal the deepest truths.
In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed answers. With his usual economy, wit, and elegance, unswerving before awkward realities, Atkins presents what science has to say. While acknowledging the comfort some find in belief, he declares his own faith in science's capacity to reveal the deepest truths.
Peter Atkins is the author of about 70 books, including the world-renowned and widely used Physical Chemistry, now in its 10th edition. He won the Grady-Stack award for science journalism in 2016. After graduating from the University of Leicester and a post-doctoral year in the University of California, Los Angeles, he returned to Oxford in 1965 as Fellow of Lincoln College and University Lecturer (later Professor) in physical chemistry. He retired in 2007, but continues to write and lecture worldwide.
Prologue ; 1. Creation ; 2. Evolution ; 3. Birth ; 4. Death ; 5. Ending ; Epilogue
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.9.2012 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 196 mm |
| Gewicht | 141 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-966054-9 / 0199660549 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-966054-4 / 9780199660544 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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