On Being: A scientist's exploration of the gr- Peter Atkins
On Being: A scientist's exploration of the gr- Peter Atkins Peter Atkins is the shining exception to the rule that scientists make poor writers. Now he turns his forensic mind to the greatest--and…
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On Being: A scientist's exploration of the gr- Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins is the shining exception to the rule that scientists make poor writers. Now he turns his forensic mind to the greatest--and most controversial--questions of human existence: birth, death, the origin of reality, and its end.In On Being, Atkins makes a provocative contribution to the great debate between religion and science. A Fellow at Oxford and a leading chemist, he has won admiration for his precise, lucid, and yet rigorous explanations of science.
He takes a materialist approach to the great questions of being that have inspired myth and religion, seeking to dispel their mystery without diminishing their grandeur. Atkins makes his position clear from the very first sentence: The scientific method can shed light on every and any concept, even those that have troubled humans since the earliest stirrings of consciousness, he writes. In placing scientific
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