This book shows that many of our understandings about scientific thought can be corrected once we realise just how "unnatural" science actually is. Quoting scientists from Aristotle to Einstein, the author argues that scientific ideas are, with rare exceptions, counter-intuitive and that common sense often makes no sense at all. A passionate advocate of the beauty and importance of science, the author examines a range of issues, including why science and technology are quite different, why psychoanalysis is not properly scientific and why philosophers and sociologists have made so little contribution to understanding science's true nature. He demonstrates the folly of holding scientists responsible for many of society's problems, and the equal folly of looking to science for a miracle cure.
- ISBN13 9780571169726
- Publish Date 6 March 2000 (first published 15 July 1998)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 7 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English