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 a volume of Einstein's work, picked up as a diversion from heartbreak. •Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist and the author of Flow, found his calling through Descartes. Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Freeman Dyson . . . 27 scientists in all write about what it was that sent them on the path to their life's work. Illuminating memoir meets superb science writing in stories that…mehr
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 a volume of Einstein's work, picked up as a diversion from heartbreak. •Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist and the author of Flow, found his calling through Descartes. Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Freeman Dyson . . . 27 scientists in all write about what it was that sent them on the path to their life's work. Illuminating memoir meets superb science writing in stories that invite us to consider what it is-and what it isn't-that sets the scientific mind apart.
John Brockman, editor of many books, including The Next Fifty Years, is also the author of By the Late John Brockman, The Third Culture, and Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite. He is the founder and CEO of Brockman Inc., a literary and software agency, and the publisher and editor of the Web site Edge. He lives in New York City.www.edge.org
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Acknowledgments Introduction Nicholas Humphrey A Family Affair David M. Buss The Bungling Apprentice Robert M. Sapolsky Mountain Gorilla and Yeshiva Boy Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Safety in Numbers Murray Gell-Mann My Father and Albert Einstein Alison Gopnik A Midcentury Modern Education Paul C. W. Davies Cosmology Calls Freeman J. Dyson Member of the Club Lee Smolin A Strange Beautiful Girl in a Car Steven Pinker How We May Have Become What We Are Mary Catherine Bateson Patterns and the Participant Observer Lynn Margulis Mixing It Up Jaron Lanier A Childhood Between Realities Richard Dawkins Dolittle and Darwin Howard Gardner One Way ofMaking a Social Scientist Joseph Ledoux Brains Through the Back Door Sherry Turkle The Objects of Our Lives Marc d. Hauser Intellectual Promiscuity Ray Kurzweil Tom Swift Jr. and the Power of Ideas Janna Levin A Day in the Life of a Child Rodney Brooks Toward the Worm J. Doyne Farmer The Everyday Practice of Physics in Silver City, New Mexico Steven Strogatz The Math of the Real World Tim White At Large in the Mountains V. S. Ramachandran The Making of a Scientist Daniel C. Dennett What I Want to Be When I Grow Up Judith Rich Harris The Gift of Solitude
Acknowledgments Introduction Nicholas Humphrey A Family Affair David M. Buss The Bungling Apprentice Robert M. Sapolsky Mountain Gorilla and Yeshiva Boy Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Safety in Numbers Murray Gell-Mann My Father and Albert Einstein Alison Gopnik A Midcentury Modern Education Paul C. W. Davies Cosmology Calls Freeman J. Dyson Member of the Club Lee Smolin A Strange Beautiful Girl in a Car Steven Pinker How We May Have Become What We Are Mary Catherine Bateson Patterns and the Participant Observer Lynn Margulis Mixing It Up Jaron Lanier A Childhood Between Realities Richard Dawkins Dolittle and Darwin Howard Gardner One Way ofMaking a Social Scientist Joseph Ledoux Brains Through the Back Door Sherry Turkle The Objects of Our Lives Marc d. Hauser Intellectual Promiscuity Ray Kurzweil Tom Swift Jr. and the Power of Ideas Janna Levin A Day in the Life of a Child Rodney Brooks Toward the Worm J. Doyne Farmer The Everyday Practice of Physics in Silver City, New Mexico Steven Strogatz The Math of the Real World Tim White At Large in the Mountains V. S. Ramachandran The Making of a Scientist Daniel C. Dennett What I Want to Be When I Grow Up Judith Rich Harris The Gift of Solitude
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