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More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof
Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps of faith. Some of the most potent beliefs among brilliant minds are based on supposition alone -- yet that is enough to push those minds toward making the theory viable.
Eminent cultural impresario, editor, and publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), John Brockman asked a group of leading scientists and thinkers to answer the question: What do you believe to be true even though you cannot prove it? This book brings together the very best answers from the most distinguished contributors.
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Customer Reviews:
Concise and Lively -- With Some Duplication
By Rev. Thomas Scarborough - February 28, 2006The title of this book is a question that was put to 109 leading scientists and thinkers. Some wrote a single paragraph in response, others wrote three to four pages.
A question behind the question recurs many times. That is, what do the authors believe belief to be? One of the more interesting comments is by Maria Spiropulu: "I would suggest that belief and proof are in some way complementary: If you believe something, you don't need proof of it, and if you have proof, you don't need to believe." Leon Ederman would seem to speak for many contributors with the comment: "To believe something while knowing it cannot be proved (yet) is the essence of physics," while Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi states: "I can prove almost nothing I believe in."
One's intuitive response to some of the contributors' beliefs might be that their beliefs would be considered to be facts. Gino Segre believes (to describe it shorthand) in the Big Bang. Stephen H. Schneider believes in... read more
but I believe in swordfish
By My Uncle Stu - May 29, 2007"What We Believe" is an intriguing concept for a book. And it's a worthy read since some of the mini-essays live up to the potential. The answers come in from scientists from a variety of backgrounds, and are no longer than a page or two each, so it has the flexibility of either being a sustained read or can also work as a bathroom reader.
The book is at its best when people give honest thoughtful answers, like several writers who take on the old questions of consciousness, free will, morality, and the Hard Problem of neuroscience, but give the topics a tweak I haven't heard before. There are also more playful takes on the question, such as when Groovy Primatologist Robert Sapolsky asserts that he would "continue to believe there is no God even if it were proved that there is." Verena Huber-Dyson, one of the many mathematicians represented who stay up late at night questioning the existence of Goedel's proof, gives another memorable response: "I believe in the creative... read more
"Great minds can sometimes guess the truth before they have...the evidence...for it"
By Stephen Pletko "Uncle Stevie" - September 10, 2006+++++
"What do you believe to be true even though you cannot prove it?"
This was what John Brockman, the editor and publisher of the online intellectual think-tank "Edge," asked leading thinkers. This book contains what this think-tank deems to be the best answers to this question.
Each contributor's answer is preceded by a brief profile of him or her. (There are 15 female contributors.)
The majority of the thinkers this book's profiles have more than one occupation. The most frequent job titles mentioned in each brief profile are as follows:
(1) author
(2) professor
(3) scientist (such as physicist, computer scientist)/social scientist (such as psychologist, economist)
(4) director (for example, a director of a laboratory)
Some other occupations mentioned are inventor, writer, editor, journalist, publisher, lecturer, and linguist.
Here is a typical profile:
"Freeman Dyson is... read more
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