Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Ten Great Ideas of Science

Science advances through new ideas and concepts which provide a more accurate method of looking at the world, making things work and furthering knowledge as well as the scientific method itself. But there are some ideas that are so profound and stunning that they may last as particularly sturdy advances in knowledge. A book published in 2003, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science, by Peter Atkins, lists ten lasting ideas – though a disproportionate number of these ten ideas are from the 19th and 20th centuries:

Evolution Occurs by Natural Selection

DNA Encodes Heritable Information

Energy is Conserved

Entropy: The Universe Tends Toward Disorder

Matter Is Made of Atoms

Symmetry Quantifies Beauty

Classical Mechanics Fails to Describe Small Particles

The Universe Is Expanding

Spacetime Is Curved by Matter

Mathematics Is the Limit of Reason
 
http://www.realclearscience.com/lists/10_greatest_ideas_in_the_history_of_science/

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