The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age
In a series of interviews with luminaries of modern science,Scientific Americansenior editor John Horgan conducted a  guided tour of the scientific world and where it might be headed inThe 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.