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by George Johnson

ISBN: 0670847399
ISBN13: 978-0670847396
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf (1996)
Pages: 400
Category: Philosophy
Subategory: Sociology

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Fast-paced and thrilling. A must for all those seriously interested in the key ideas at the frontier of scientific discourse.

Fast-paced and thrilling. In the spirit of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Compression is the essence of science Johnson proceeds to compress with utter clarity, almost casually tap-dancing his way through particle physics, quantum theory, cosmology and evolutionary biology.

This was a wonderful book - couldn't put it down! The contrast between the Tewa indians and the scientists at Los Alamos made a wonderful backdrop from which to explore the frontiers of current thinking in cosmology and physics. George Johnson is a great writer. Perhaps being from New Mexico enhanced my enjoyment.

Fire in the Mind book. George Johnson (born January 20, 1952) is an American journalist and science writer. He is the author of a number of books, including The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments (2008) and Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics (1999), and writes for a number of publications, including Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

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George Johnson writes regularly about science for the New York Times. He has also written for National Geographic, Slate, Discover, Scientific American, Wired, and the Atlantic, and his work has been included in The Best American Science Writing. A former Alicia Patterson fellow, he has received awards from PEN and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and his books were twice finalists for the Royal Society’s book prize. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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This exploration forces the reader to rethink what "reality" is. In the process we realize that we "know" very little about reality.

Science & Nature.

George Johnson was my group leader in a recent Santa Fe Science-Writing workshop. In several of our discussions, this book came up, so I decided to read it when I came home

In this stunningly original book, set among the mountains and canyonlands of northern New Mexico, George Johnson .

A study of the human drive to create order and reason is set in New Mexico and notes the parallel beliefs of the ancient Anasazi people, the Tewa Native Americans, the Penitentes, and the scientists of the Santa Fe Institute. 10,000 first printing.

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Goldcrusher

good reading

Gogal

Molace

Love the book

Breder

What is endlessly fascinating about this book -- which lays out the human search for patterns and meaning -- is the quality of the writing. Johnson can turn a sentence like nobody's business. Highly recommended.

Shomeshet

Great thesis tying the human need to find structure and order to science and religion. Atheists can learn from the religion drivers, and religious folks can have a succinct and intelligent review of science.

Ishnjurus

This is a great book. It's well written, laid out logically. However, the starting point is that you understand the physics. If you're looking to learn about the science, it will be way over your head. I'm meeting with my friend, the physics professor, who can hopefully explain it to me.

blac wolf

Holy science

George Johnson has taken on some of the most difficult issues and questions woven into the fabric of science and religion and seperates them into their component threads to be examined by ordinary readers. He explores various world views as seen from the mountains and plateaus of northern New Mexico, truly a Land of Enchantment. The vast majority of modern human beings take most of the information we process each day on faith, no less our ideas of science than our religious verities. Johnson explores these faiths in the context of the pueblos, mountains, cities and research institutions of this ancient land, and presents each of them with no hint of condescension or disparagement. A truly remarkable feat given his subject matter which ranges from bar fights in remote villages to sunsets brilliantly firing the walls of the Sangre de Cristo mountians to the rituals and traditions of the Catholic Church and the Assemblios de Dios, to those of the Tewas and the myths and rites of the most primative peoples of the region. This is the best book exploring the escatologies of science and religion that I have ever read. It makes me anxious to retire so that I can attend lectures at the Santa Fe Institute and explore the mesmerizing landscape of nortern New Mexico. Read it. You will never again think of the struggle between science and religion in the same way.