Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future

by Helga Nowotny

Book Overview

An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.

Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science needs autonomy to cultivate this kind of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262515105
• ISBN13: 9780262515108
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher