Brilliant Blunders
Subtitle: From Darwin to Einstein
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781439192368
Description: "Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--
Table of contents: title: Mistakes and blunders; title: The origin; title: Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; title: How old is the Earth?; title: Certainty generally is illusion; title: Interpreter of life; title: Whose DNA is it anyway?; title: B for Big Bang; title: The same throughout eternity?; title: The "biggest blunder"; title: Out of empty space; title: Coda