What should go into a "Bible of Science"?
This is not meant to be a partisan “science vs. religion” question. But, what if there was a one-stop “science reader” that was a collection of essays or chapters from all over that is the “essential” layman’s science book? What would YOU put in it? I first think of Carl Sagan’s famous “Baloney Detection Kit” as a must-include. Everyone from Thomas Jefferson to the Dalai Lama has written about science essentials.
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rule number one: don’t make rules about science, someone eventually proves you wrong.
You really couldn’t put anything more than the method in. It would be a pretty short book.
The “for dummies” series (which should be understood as “for beginners” or “as a general overview of the basics”) offers essential layman’s science books. What would I put in? Everything that shows up in the following Amazon book result list up to number 12:
http://www.amazon.com then enter
science for dummies
in the search field.
@RealEyesRealizeRealLies Science is the method by which we discover approximations of truth. You can’t put truth in a book about searching for truth; there’d be no reason to search for it if it was already known!
Really though, I’d probably have Kant and Popper’s epistemologies as the principle focus of the book. A logical explanation of how science works is important to understanding it’s uses and limitations.
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