Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist by Brockman, John

Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400076864)

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Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist by Brockman, John

Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist

$18.00
Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist by Brockman, John

Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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What makes a child decide to become a scientist?

-For Robert Sapolsky-Stanford professor of biology-it was an argument with a rabbi over a passage in the Bible.
-Physicist Lee Smolin traces his inspiration to a volume of Einstein's work, picked up as a diversion from heartbreak.
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist and the author of Flow, found his calling through Descartes.

Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Freeman Dyson . . . 27 scientists in all write about what it was that sent them on the path to their life's work. Illuminating memoir meets superb science writing in stories that invite us to consider what it is-and what it isn't-that sets the scientific mind apart.

Author: John Brockman
ISBN-10: 1400076862
ISBN-13: 9781400076864
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2005
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.57d
By John Brockman
By John Brockman
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John Brockman, editor of many books, including The Next Fifty Years, is also the author of By the Late John Brockman, The Third Culture, and Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite. He is the founder and CEO of Brockman Inc., a literary and software agency, and the publisher and editor of the Web site Edge. He lives in New York City.www.edge.org

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