Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 523 pages) |
Contents |
Founders of modern science. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) -- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) -- Isaac Newton (1643-1727) -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- Alfred North Whithead (1861-1947) -- Scientists of our time. Rachel Carson (1907-1964) -- Carl Sagan (1934-1996) -- Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) -- Richard Dawkins (1941- ) -- Jane Goodall (1934- ) -- Steven Weinberg (1933- ) -- John Polkinghorne (1930- ) -- Freeman Dyson (1923- ) -- Stephen Hawking (1942- ) -- Paul Davies (1946- ) -- Edward O. Wilson (1929- ) -- Stuart A. Kauffman (1939- ) -- Ursula Goodenough (1944- ) |
Summary |
The Faith of Scientists is an anthology of writings by twenty-one legendary scientists, from the dawn of the Scientific Revolution to the frontiers of science today, about their faith, their views about God, and the place religion holds--or doesn't--in their lives in light of their commitment to science. --From publisher description |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Religion and science.
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Scientists -- Religious life
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Religion and Science
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RELIGION -- Religion & Science.
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Religion and science
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Scientists -- Religious life
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Frankenberry, Nancy, 1947- editor.
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ISBN |
9781400829804 |
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1400829801 |
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