The Limits of Science by P B Medawar

The Limits of Science by P B Medawar

Written by the 1960 Nobel Prize winner in the field of immunology, this volume explores the nature and limitations of scientific pursuit. The three essays touch on some of mankind's greatest questions: Can science determine the existence of God? Is there one scientific method by which all the secrets of the universe can be discovered? The book aims to define the limits of science. The author's central purpose is to exculpate science from the reproach that it is quite unable to answer those ultimate questions that he shows to be beyond its explanatory competence. This charge, he argues, is no more sensible than to reproach a railway locomotive for not flying. But in spite of this he believes science to be a great and glorious enterprise - the most successful that human beings have ever engaged in. Peter Medawar is the author of Advice to a Young Scientist, Pluto's Republic, Memoir of a Thinking Radish and Aristotle to Zoos (with Jean Medawar).

bout the Author: Sir Peter Medawar, OM, 1915-87, was born in Rio de Janeiro and educated at Magdelen College, Oxford. He began research in H. W. Florey's department at Oxford in the early days of the development of penicillin. After professorships at Birmingham and University College London, he
became Director of the National Institute for Medical Research. His scientific reputation is based mainly on his research in immunology, which helped make transplant surgery possible. In 1960 he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on tissue transplantation. Elected to the Royal Society at
the age of 34, he was also a Fellow of the British Academy - a rare honour for a scientist. Sir Peter wrote a number of books for a general audience, including Pluto's Republic (1982), The Limits of Science (1985), and Aristotle to Zoos (1983, with Jean Medawar). A further collection of his essays,
The Threat and the Glory (1990), was published after his death.

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Title	The Limits of Science
Author	P B Medawar
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1986-12-01
Number of pages	128
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