Science Matters (Revised)

“Lucid and lively. Hazen and Trefil have a particular genius for picturing even formidably abstract ideas in concrete images. . . . Science Matters is as good as they get” ––The Washington Post Book World

“Hazen and Trefil [are] unpretentious––good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain-anything science teachers, the kind you wish you had but never did.” ––The New York Times

“A book that even scientifically literate readers can consult . . . if they find their recollection of relativity or quantum mechanics getting shaky.” ––New Scientist

“Ordered and accessible, never daunting, never jumping ahead of itself. . . . If you’ve always thought you could never understand science, Hazen and Trefil will show you you’re wrong.” ––Washington Monthly

“A thoughtful and concise overview of what the citizen needs to know about science.” ––E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

“Science does matter, as this book shows.” ––Isaac Asimov

“A model of clarity and coherence.” ––Leon M. Lederman, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics

“Lucid. . . . Will cause readers to wonder what was so confusing about the Periodic Table of Elements they confronted in their school days.” ––Publishers Weekly

“A first rate exposition–thorough, accessible, and entertaining–of the rudiments of scientific knowledge.” –Kirkus Reviews

“A confident overview of the fundamentals of science. . . . Comprehensible and carefully paced.” –Booklist

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Title of ebook: Science Matters (Revised)
ISBN: 9780307456649
parent-ISBN: 9780307454584
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 06-2009
Released online for download: 06-09-2009
Author of eBook: Hazen, Robert M.
Author of eBook: Trefil, James

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Science Matters

Achieving Scientific Literacy
CHAPTER ONE

Knowing

YOUR LIFE IS FILLED with routine—you set your alarm clock at night, take a shower in the morning, brush your teeth after breakfast, pay your bills on time, and fasten your seat belt. With each of these actions and a hundred others every day you acknowledge the power of predictability. If you don’t set the alarm you’ll probably be late for work or school. If you don’t take a shower you’ll probably smell. If you don’t fasten your seat belt and then get into a freeway accident you may die.

We all seek order to deal with life’s uncertainties. We look for patterns to help us cope. Scientists do the same thing. They constantly examine nature, guided by one overarching principle:

The universe is regular and predictable.

The universe is not random. The sun comes up every morning, the stars sweep across the sky at night. The universe moves in regular, predictable ways. Human beings can grasp the regularities of the universe and can even uncover the basic, simple laws that produce them. We call this ... read full excerpt from: Science Matters (Revised) ebook

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