Saturday, August 2, 2014

The Ten Great Ideas of Science

Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science by Peter Atkins. The ten ideas he proposes are:
Evolution by Natural Selection

DNA Encodes Heritable Information

Energy is Conserved

Entropy: Universe Tends Towards Disorder

Matter is Made of Atoms

Symmetry Quantifies Beauty

Classical Mechanics Fails to Describe Small Particles

The Universe is Expanding

Spacetime is Curved by Matter

Mathematics is the Limit of Reason

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