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Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist

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A fascinating collection of essays from twenty-seven of the world's most interesting scientists about the moments and events in their childhoods that set them on the paths that would define their lives.
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What makes a child decide to become a scientist?
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-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 the volume of Einstein's work he picked up as a diversion from heartbreak.
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist and the author of Flow, found his calling through Descartes.
-Mary Catherine Bateson--author of Composing a Life--discovered that she wanted to be an anthropologist while studying Hebrew.
-Janna Levin--author of How the Universe Got Its Spots--felt impelled by the work of Carl Sagan to know more.
Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Freeman Dyson, Daniel C. Dennett, Lynn Margulis, V. S. Ramachandran, Howard Gardner, Richard Dawkins, and more than a dozen others tell their own entertaining and often inspiring stories of the deciding moment. Illuminating memoir meets superb science writing in essays that invite us to consider what it is--and isn't--that sets the scientific mind apart and into action.

Language: English

Pages: 236

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Pantheon Books

Release: August 31, 2004

ISBN: 0375422919

ISBN 13: 9780375422911

Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist

3.5/5 ( ratings)

A fascinating collection of essays from twenty-seven of the world's most interesting scientists about the moments and events in their childhoods that set them on the paths that would define their lives.
"
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 the volume of Einstein's work he picked up as a diversion from heartbreak.
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist and the author of Flow, found his calling through Descartes.
-Mary Catherine Bateson--author of Composing a Life--discovered that she wanted to be an anthropologist while studying Hebrew.
-Janna Levin--author of How the Universe Got Its Spots--felt impelled by the work of Carl Sagan to know more.
Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Freeman Dyson, Daniel C. Dennett, Lynn Margulis, V. S. Ramachandran, Howard Gardner, Richard Dawkins, and more than a dozen others tell their own entertaining and often inspiring stories of the deciding moment. Illuminating memoir meets superb science writing in essays that invite us to consider what it is--and isn't--that sets the scientific mind apart and into action.

Language: English

Pages: 236

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Pantheon Books

Release: August 31, 2004

ISBN: 0375422919

ISBN 13: 9780375422911

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