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On Being

A scientist's exploration of the great questions of existence
By:Peter Atkins
Publisher:Oxford University Press Academic UK
Print ISBN:9780199660544
eText ISBN:9780191615870
Edition:0
Format:Reflowable

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In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed answers. With his usual economy, wit, and elegance, unswerving before awkward realities, Atkins presents what science has to say. While acknowledging the comfort some find in belief, he declares his own faith in science's capacity to reveal the deepest truths.