Ignorance: How It Drives Science

Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery.

• | By (Author): Stuart (Professor And Chair, Department Of Biological Sciences, Professor And Chair, Department Of Biological Sciences, Columbia University) Firestein
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• | Publication Date: Jul 19, 2012
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0199828075
• | ISBN-13: 9780199828074