What Is Your Dangerous Idea? edit
External links edit
http://www.newsobserver.com/697/story/386147.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2141029,00.html (see the second section)
Responses edit
According to Jill Murphy, a reviewer of the website "The Bookbag", What is Your Dangerous Idea? provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the topics covered in this book. She expands by writing that the ideas make the reader think about them.
| “ | The joy in this book is that it is easy to understand. Science duffer that I am, I had no difficulty with any of the concepts or theories. The Edge contributors really had exceeded their game. These ideas don't challenge the reader to understand them; they challenge the reader to think about them.[1] | ” |
The book has also been likened to "Shakespearean science"[2] by one reviewer, due to the expression of ideas formerly written by English playwright William Shakespeare, except with concrete evidence.
| “ | The result is definitely a "dessert island book" -- one you would choose if marooned on an island -- because most of the short answers provoke enough speculation and wonderment in your own mind to last a lifetime. You would take it for the same reasons you'd take Shakespeare -- beauty and universality. Shakespeare of course has on his own already expressed poetically what these thinkers say as a matter of science; but these ones cite research.[2] | ” |
Another reviewer summarized the various ideas, concluding that science's progress may make us realize our limits.
| “ | And so we are left with our final dangerous idea: Science's long journey down the corridors of knowledge has led us back to the realms of mystery and wonder. A method of inquiry that promised us mastery may ultimately remind us of our limits.[3] | ” |
Notes edit
- ^ Murphy, Jill. "Review of What is Your Dangerous Idea? by John Brockman (editor)". Retrieved 2008-2-13.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ a b Julian, Barbara. "Shakespearean Science" (HTML). Retrieved 2008-03-25.
- ^ J. Peter Zane (08 January, 2006). "The most dangerous idea". The News & Observer. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
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