On Being : A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence

Author(s): Peter Atkins

Inspiration

In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed answers. With his usual economy, wit, and elegance, unswerving before awkward realities, Atkins presents what science has to say. While acknowledging the comfort some find in belief, he declares his own faith in science's capacity to reveal the deepest truths.


Product Information

An effortless read - a real page turner. - BBC Focus

Prologue; 1. Creation; 2. Evolution; 3. Birth; 4. Death; 5. Ending; Epilogue

General Fields

  • : 9780199603367
  • : Oxford University Press
  • : Oxford University Press
  • : 0.238
  • : March 2011
  • : 204mm X 145mm X 15mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Peter Atkins
  • : 128
  • : 111.1
  • : Hardback