The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
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HighBridge, 2020.
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9781696601993
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8h 16m 0s
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Michael Strevens., Michael Strevens|AUTHOR., & Julian Elfer|READER. (2020). The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science . HighBridge.

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Michael Strevens, Michael Strevens|AUTHOR and Julian Elfer|READER. 2020. The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science. HighBridge.

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Michael Strevens, Michael Strevens|AUTHOR and Julian Elfer|READER. The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science HighBridge, 2020.

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Michael Strevens, Michael Strevens|AUTHOR, and Julian Elfer|READER. The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science HighBridge, 2020.

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Captivatingly written, interwoven with historical vignettes ranging from Newton's alchemy to quantum mechanics to the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy, Michael Strevens' wholly original investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is science so powerful? And why did it take so long, two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics, for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of nature? The Knowledge Machine's radical answer is that science calls on its practitioners to do something irrational: by willfully ignoring religion, theoretical beauty, and, especially, philosophy-essentially stripping away all previous knowledge-scientists embrace an unnaturally narrow method of inquiry, channeling unprecedented energy into observation and experimentation.

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