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Synopsis
As a writer for Scientific American, the author routinely interviews contemporary scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking, Karl Popper, Richard Feynmann and Noam Chomsky. In this book he discusses with them whether all the big scientific questions have been answered and all the knowledge worth knowing become known. Will there eventually be a theory of everything that signals the end? At a time when scientific rationality is under fire from many quarters, Horgan provides an overview of current scientific enterprise as he discusses God, Star Trek, superstrings, quarks, consciousness and many other topics.
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In a series of interviews with luminaries of modern science, Scientific American senior editor John Horgan conducted a guided tour of the scientific world and where it might be headed in The End of Science. The book, which generated great controversy and became a bestseller, now appears in paperback with a new afterword by the author. Through a series of essays in which he visits with such figures as Roger Penrose, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Freeman Dyson, and others, Horgan captures the distinct personalities of his subjects while investigating whether science may indeed be reaching its end. While this book is in no way dumbed down, it is accessible and can take the general reader to the outer edges of scientific exploration.
From the Publisher
"John Horgan buttonholes the most interesting scientists on the planet--helistens, he argues, he thinks. He has an exceedingly accurate instinct for theside of science that isn't published in journals or taught in schools, and it'sa privilege to be able to follow along as he peers behind the curtain."
--James Gleick, author of Chaos
"[In this] intellectually bracing, sweepingly reported, often brilliant andsometimes bullying book, John Horgan makes the powerful case that the best andmost exciting scientific discoveries are behind us."
--New York Times Book Review, front page review
"...an unauthorized biography of science."
--The Associated Press
"Hugely entertaining, certain to create
controversy."
--E.O. Wilson
Copyright © 1996 by John Horgan.
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