Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown

by Pang Camilla

A scientist’s journey from observation to discovery is anything but straightforward. It is littered with failure, unexpected diversions and joyous realizations. Science helps us to understand ourselves – but what we know about the world around us, what has already been explored and discovered, is only half of science’s story.Dr Camilla Pang will look at some of the biggest mysteries facing science today and how some of the best, most cutting-edge scientists can illuminate our own approaches to observation, hypothesis, exploration, troubleshooting and discovery in our own lives. Breakthrough explores the frontier between what we do and don’t know about the where knowledge meets mystery, complexity overwhelms certainty, and the vastness of our universe unspools the logic of science's established laws.There's a scientist hidden inside all of us. Science's greatest gift to us is not formulae but enabling the urge to discover that makes us truly human.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science

240 pages, Hardcover

Published April 24, 2024

Reviews

[An · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.25

Even though this book sets out to explore the nuances of the scientific method and how we can see it in real-life applications, it leans more toward being a memoir, with only a little focus on the former.

[Tomas Verbeeck · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF. A childish, quirky, love letter to science. Ridden with annoying prose. Cute as a high shool project at best.