Acid Tongues And Tranquil Dreamers: Human Dramas Of Scientific Rivalry And Innovation; Author: White, Michael; Paperback

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Acid Tongues And Tranquil Dreamers: Human Dramas Of Scientific Rivalry And Innovation

Author: White, Michael
Paperback
Perennial (HarperCollins)
ISBN: 0380806134

As George Bernard Shaw said, The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Like other creative geniuses, scientists have achieved breakthroughs as a result of irrational motives -- notably the desire to best a rival. Revealing how each resulted in extraordinary discoveries, Michael White explores eight all-too-human rivalries over the past four centuries:

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