Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein: Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

by Mario Livio

Book Overview

Drawing on the lives of five renowned scientists, Mario Livio shows how even these geniuses made major mistakes and how their errors were an essential part of the process of achieving scientific breakthroughs. WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. Nobody's perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439192367
• ISBN13: 9781439192368
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"