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Petit Point
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
其他書名
A Candid Portrait on the Aberrations of Science
出版
World Scientific
, 2004
主題
Science / General
ISBN
9812560114
9789812560117
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=W79pDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In this fascinating book, Nobel Prize winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes wittily captures the lives of personalities from both the academic and the industrial world in delightful bite-size stories. Most of the characters in this collection are like those in Aesop's fables, but in modern-day research settings. The book provides a critical account of aberrations (fortunately rare) of the scientific community. Many lessons can be drawn from the stories. For the young researcher, this book is like a telescope: for seeing other human beings beyond his or her laboratory. For the administrator, this book is like a microscope: for seeing inside the human beings huge and complex structures. However, like Aesop's fables, you would not offer the book as a gift to anyone other than a close and wise friend.Petit Point is not a book to be devoured in a single sitting. It is one to be savored and reflected upon ? it shows what the world may be like and what we ourselves may become. It is like a mirror ? to be visited from time to time.