TY  - BOOK
AU  - Livio,Mario
TI  - Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists that Changed our Understanding of Life and the Universe 
SN  - 9781439192375(Paperback)
AV  - Q172.5.E77 L58 2013
U1  - 500 L764B 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Errors, Scientific
KW  - SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE / History
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index; Mistakes and blunders -- The origin -- Yea, all which I inherit, shall dissolve -- How old is the Earth? -- Certainty generally is illusion -- Interpreter of life -- Whose DNA is it anyway? -- B for big bang -- The same throughout eternity? -- The "biggest blunder" -- Out of empty space
N2  - "Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--
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