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List Price: £43.99
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By Springer
List Price: £25.00
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Author:
Kathy Barker
By Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S.
 Perfect for beginner's level researchers, 2005-10-23
This is just the book I have been looking for. It contains information that is necessary for somebody who had never been to a research laboratory. The very basic details that more experienced co-workers will not always remember to tell are given very nicely in this book. It also includes information like those on the (sometimes untold) rules and etiquette of research groups, meetings and data presentation. These information may prevent a lot of painful experience and time loss. Therefore I consider this book a very useful reference for those who are new in research (like me).
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Author:
Richard P. Feynman
By Penguin Books Ltd
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist collects three previously unpublished lectures by Richard Feynman, who is probably the greatest populariser of physics in this century. There is plenty of scientific illumination here for the general reader, and more remarkably, some fantastic ruminations on the relationships among science, religion, politics, and everyday life. Feynman is especially sensitive to the relationships between scientific scepticism, faithful doubt and ideological flexibility. These lectures have been transcribed verbatim, so they sometimes ramble and repeat themselves. But this slim volume has wisdom and wit on every page: it is a truly erudite and edifying meditation on Dostoevsky's observation that "There lies more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds". --Michael Joseph Gross
A beginners guide to epistemology, 2008-05-03
If you do not know what epistemology is and do not really want to know, but you want to be a scientist then you should read this book. It describes how a scientist thinks and what we know.
One review has said it rambles, but so do the minds of scientists. When you get a perfectly formed argument and lecture then you do not get what is really happening. You are expecting some completed finalised package. You expect an answer - the truth.
Everyday in science is a new discovery, a new wonder and you never know anything! When you present your work it looks complete, it looks convincing but a real scientist knows it is never quite there. That is the spirit of these lectures - they are not to teach they are to inspire and to give you a taste of unsanitised reality.
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