Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein-Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

摘要

How many times have you said or heard someone say, "I'd rather be lucky than good?' Unspoken of course is that lucky and good are even better, and if you happen to be lucky and brilliant, well, then, you might just alter humanity's understanding of our world. Brilliant Blunders is a wonderful examination of the imperfections of scientific thought and explanation and shows how errors, even serious and conceptual ones, not only can be overcome by great minds but also are sometimes key parts of scientific progress.