On Being : A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence
ISBN: 9780199660544 | 0199660549
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/8/2012
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Peter Atkins is the shining exception to the rule that scientists make poor writers. A Fellow at Oxford and a leading chemist, he has won admiration for his precise, lucid, and yet rigorous explanations of science. Now he turns his forensic mind to the greatest--and most controversial--questions of human existence: birth, death, the origin of reality, and its end. InOn Being, Atkins makes a provocative contribution to the great debate between religion and science. Atkins makes his position clear from the very first sentence: "The scientific met... MORE
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| Creation | |
| Evolution | |
| Birth | |
| Death | |
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Peter Atkins is Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford. A leading chemist and writer of widely adopted textbooks, he is the author of Galileo's Finger and Four Laws, among other works.
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