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The faith of scientists in their own words / edited, with commentary, by Nancy K. Frankenberry. - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xviii, 523 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Founders of modern science. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) -- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) -- Isaac Newton (1643-1727) -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- Alfred North Whithead (1861-1947) -- Scientists of our time. Rachel Carson (1907-1964) -- Carl Sagan (1934-1996) -- Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) -- Richard Dawkins (1941- ) -- Jane Goodall (1934- ) -- Steven Weinberg (1933- ) -- John Polkinghorne (1930- ) -- Freeman Dyson (1923- ) -- Stephen Hawking (1942- ) -- Paul Davies (1946- ) -- Edward O. Wilson (1929- ) -- Stuart A. Kauffman (1939- ) -- Ursula Goodenough (1944- ).

The Faith of Scientists is an anthology of writings by twenty-one legendary scientists, from the dawn of the Scientific Revolution to the frontiers of science today, about their faith, their views about God, and the place religion holds--or doesn't--in their lives in light of their commitment to science. --From publisher description.

ISBN: 9781400829804 1400829801

Standard No.: 9786612159077

Standard Tech. Report. No.: JSTOR purchased

Source: 215907 MIL 22573/cttwn70 JSTOR

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religion and science.
Scientists--Religious life.
Religion and Science
Religion et sciences.
RELIGION--Religion & Science.
Religion and science
Scientists--Religious life

LC Class. No.: BL241 / .F358 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 201/.65 22