Letters to a Young Scientist - Softcover

Wilson, Edward O

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871403854 ISBN 13: 9780871403858

Publisher: Liveright, 2014

Synopsis

Letters to a Young Scientist

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Review:

Inspiring... Ought to be on the shelves of all high school and public libraries.

The eminent entomologist, naturalist and sociobiologist draws on the experiences of a long career to offer encouraging advice to those considering a life in science... Glows with one man's love for science.

Edward O. Wilson, the evolutionary biologist who has studied social behavior among insects and humans, offers advice to aspiring researchers...A naturalist at heart, he plays down technology, math, even intelligence, proposing that a good scientist should be 'bright enough to see what can be done but not too bright as to become bored doing it.'...delivers deep insights into how observation and experiment drive theory.--Jascha Hoffman

In this fund of practical and philosophical guidance distilled from seven decades of experience, Wilson provides exactly the right mentoring for scientists of all disciplines--and all ages... This is no pompous, deeply philosophical treatise on how great ideas develop. Wilson shares his simple love for ants and their natural history, revelling in them without hesitation. Everything else follows.

About the Author:

Edward O. Wilson is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent biologists and naturalists. The author of more than thirty books, including Half-Earth, The Social Conquest of Earth, The Meaning of Human Existence, and Letters to a Young Scientist, Wilson is a professor emeritus at Harvard University. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he lives with his wife, Irene Wilson, in Lexington, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liveright
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0871403854
• ISBN 13: 9780871403858
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256