Acquisition and Loss of Nationality|Volume 2: Country Analyses
Kees Groenendijk, Eva Ersbøll, Harald WaldrauchRainer Bauböck (ed.)
- Title
- Darwin Meets Einstein
- Subtitle
- On the Meaning of Science
- Author
- Frans Saris
- Price
- € 41,95 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789089640581
- Format
- Paperback
- Number of pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 17 - 11 - 2009
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Category
- Science and Technology
- Discipline
- Science, Medicine, and Technology
Darwin Meets Einstein - 4
Contents - 8
The temple of science - 10
Diary of a physicist - 14
Dear Zhong-lie - 24
Alchemy - 26
Worthwhile - 28
Scientific nomads - 30
Superheated Ice - 35
Managing a discovery - 38
Spy in the lab - 44
B. Manfred Ullrich - 47
Diary of a fusionist - 52
Roger - 56
Solar cells - 57
Particle accelerators - 60
The Silicon Age - 63
The discoverer and the inventor - 71
Jaap was right - 73
Moore’s law in Bilthoven - 75
Teller in the Netherlands - 77
The scientific life - 82
Shopping - 92
Fundamental research on matter - 94
A vacuum is not nothing - 96
Father of the atom - 99
Who influenced Bohr? - 103
Hooray for the electron - 106
Decadence - 109
Physics and faith - 113
Theories of everything - 115
A mind’s eye - 122
The mother of all knowledge - 125
A matter of civilization - 128
Why science? - 133
Spinoza’s God - 139
Science through the looking glass ofliterature - 145
Sir Charles - 154
Darwin meets Einstein - 156
Frans Saris
Darwin Meets Einstein
On the Meaning of Science
In contrast to physicists, biologists already have the Theory of Everything. This is one of the underlying messages that physicist and author Frans W. Saris expresses in a collection of his essays, columns, diaries, and a play, published for the past twenty-five years in Dutch newspapers, journals and books. In the physics of Einstein, Bohr, Teller, Weinberg, B. Manfred Ullrich and the biology of Darwin, Tinbergen and De Waal, this witty and searching book explores in many dimensions the question: Why Science?
Frans W. Saris argues that in our postmodern times we have lost the meaning of science and he puts science in an evolutionary perspective: science is not in the interest of intellectual or commercial competition, not for creating wealth, not even for fun. It is essential for our survival, the survival of humans, and the survival of life itself.
Frans Saris in the Media:
NRC Handelsblad van 02 december 2010.
Delta (Weekblad van TU Delft) van 17 december 2009.
RTL Nieuws van 24 november 2009.
RTV Noord-Holland van 24 november 2009.
BNR Duurzaam van 25 november 2009.
Radio 1, Feiten en Fillet, België. Luister hier naar het audio fragment.
Hoe?Zo! Radio van 27 november 2009.
Trouw van 27 november 2009.
de Volkskrant van zaterdag 21 november 2009.
De Morgen van 27 november 2009.
Frans W. Saris argues that in our postmodern times we have lost the meaning of science and he puts science in an evolutionary perspective: science is not in the interest of intellectual or commercial competition, not for creating wealth, not even for fun. It is essential for our survival, the survival of humans, and the survival of life itself.
Frans Saris in the Media:
NRC Handelsblad van 02 december 2010.
Delta (Weekblad van TU Delft) van 17 december 2009.
RTL Nieuws van 24 november 2009.
RTV Noord-Holland van 24 november 2009.
BNR Duurzaam van 25 november 2009.
Radio 1, Feiten en Fillet, België. Luister hier naar het audio fragment.
Hoe?Zo! Radio van 27 november 2009.
Trouw van 27 november 2009.
de Volkskrant van zaterdag 21 november 2009.
De Morgen van 27 november 2009.
Author
Frans Saris
Frans W. Saris is emeritus professor of physics and Dean of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Leiden. www.FransWSaris.nl
