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Breakthrough
How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn to Fail and Embrace the Unknown
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What can we learn about the world and ourselves if we think like scientists? A scientist's journey from observation to discovery is anything but straightforward. It is littered with failure, unexpected diversions, and joyous realisations. Science helps us to understand ourselves in a world where we...
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What can we learn about the world and ourselves if we think like scientists?
A scientist's journey from observation to discovery is anything but straightforward. It is littered with failure, unexpected diversions, and joyous realisations. Science helps us to understand ourselves in a world where we often feel like strangers—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 looks at some of the biggest mysteries facing science today and how some of the best cutting-edge scientists can illuminate our own approaches to observation, hypothesis, exploration, troubleshooting, and discovery in our lives.
Breakthrough explores the frontier between what we do and don't know about the world—where knowledge meets mystery, complexity overwhelms certainty, and the vastness of our universe unspools the logic of science's established laws.
The stability of science was originally a safety blanket for her survival with Autism; after becoming a scientist herself, Camilla quickly realises that it is the complete opposite. Scientific research, much like life—beset by new technology and ubiquitous information—is constantly changing. Part of its curse but also of its beauty.
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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241545348
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 March 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Viking
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 182g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Dr Camilla Pang holds a PhD in biochemistry from University College London and is a postdoctoral scientist specializing in translational bioinformatics. At the age of eight, Camilla was diagnosed with ASD (autism spectrum disorder) and ADHD at twenty-six years old. Her career and studies have been heavily influenced by her diagnosis and she is driven by her passion for understanding humans, our behaviours and how we work. Her first book, Explaining Humans, won the Royal Society Science Book Prize.
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