Letters to a Young Scientist
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Call Number: 570.92 Wi, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Biology / Wilson, Edward O
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch
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Includes index.
You made the right choice -- The path to follow. First passion, then training ; Mathematics ; The path to follow -- The creative process. What is science? ; The creative process ; What it takes ; Most likely to succeed ; I never changed ; Archetypes of the scientific mind ; Scientists as explorers of the universe -- A life in science. A mentor and the start of a career ; The grails of field biology ; A celebration of audacity ; Know your subject, thoroughly -- Theory and the big picture. Science as universal knowledge ; Searching for new worlds on Earth ; The making of theories ; Biological theory on a grand scale ; Theory in the real world -- Truth and ethics. The scientific ethic.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 244 pages : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780871403773
0871403773
SUBJECTS
Wilson, Edward O. -- Correspondence.
Biologists -- Correspondence.
Naturalists -- Correspondence.
Science.