| Book review: The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age by John Horgan |
Burgeson, JW. 1997.
PSCF 49(3):200. CELD ID 14422Abstract
An American fable, probably apocryphal, tells of an executive in the Patents Office resigning his job in 1890 because, he said, Nearly everything that can be invented now has been! Now comes John Horgan, science writer for the Scientific American (that journal which has the self-appointed task of telling us how to think about science), interviewing dozens of scientists and philosophers on a similar issue. Horgan poses the question this way:
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