Science Askew. A Light-Hearted Look at the Scientific World
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Author(s): D. E. Simanek and J. C. Holden
Publisher: Institute of Physics
ISBN: 0750307145
Format: hardback
310pp
Price: £21.99
Review Date: 02 January 2002
Review: This is a collection of quotes, jokes, research reports and wordplay, all based on the scientific world. There is something in here for scientists of all disciplines – physicists, mathematicians, biologists, engineers and computer scientists. 'Never run after a bus, a woman, or a cosmology theory. There will always be another one in a few minutes.' John A. Wheeler (1911- ) US physicist…..And there's more in that vein.