Failure: Why Science Is So Successful

Author/Contributor(s):	Firestein, Stuart
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Date:	10/01/2015
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

In his sequel to Ignorance (Oxford University Press, 2012), Stuart Firestein shows us that the scientific enterprise is riddled with mistakes and errors - and that this is a good thing! Failure: Why Science Is So Successful delves into the origins of scientific research as a process that relies upon trial and error, one which inevitably results in a hefty dose of failure.