From Eros to Gaia
by Freeman Dyson
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These 35 essays by astrophysicist Dyson on the faces of science and its practitioners, and on the ethical dilemmas surrounding science and the human condition are grouped loosely into stories, things, institutions, politics, books, and people. The volume includes fascinating accounts of specific projects, plausible but ingenious "story" creations, and glimpses of encounters between Dyson and other significant figures in 20th-century science. Among his deeply held and vehemently argued show more convictions are the urgency of taking immediate action to preserve Gaia, our living planet by planting trees and managing wetlands; and the need for institutions supporting research, be they academic or governmental, to allow and encourage dissension, originality, and eccentricity. ISBN 0-679-41307-3: $25.00. show lessTags
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Freeman Dyson, editor, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has contributed to the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, and biology. He is the author of numerous books, including Weapons and Hope, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984.
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