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On being : a scientist's exploration of the great questions of existence / Peter Atkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atkins, P. W. (Peter William), 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ontology.
- Science--Methodology--Popular works.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (128 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Prologue; 1 Beginning; 2 Progression; 3 Birth; 4 Death; 5 Ending; Epilogue; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-161587-0
- 1-283-22300-7
- 9786613223005
- 0-19-161681-8
- OCLC:
- 746747083
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