Overview
A comprehensive, but also carefully curated collection of quotes on major topics of relevance to scientists, engineers, and STEM students
The entries are thematically ordered, forming quasi-continuous narrative threads, making their sequential reading more engaging
The text, authorship, and the first publication date of each quote have been thoroughly verified
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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About this book
This book brings together about 2,500 quotations on various topics of interest to scientists and engineers, including students of STEM disciplines. Careful curation of the material by the editor provides the reader with far greater value than can be obtained by searching the internet.
The quotes have been selected for various attributes including: importance of topic, depth of insight, and - not least - wit, with many of them satisfying all these criteria. To make sequential reading of the quotes more engaging, they are grouped into broad topical sections, and the entries within each section are organized thematically, forming quasi-continuous narrative threads. The text and authorship of each quote have been carefully verified, and the most popular cases of misquotation and misattribution are noted.
The book represents a valuable resource for those writing science and engineering articles as well as being a joy to read in its own right.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Essential Quotes for Scientists and Engineers
Editors: Konstantin K. Likharev
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63332-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63331-8Published: 28 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63332-5Published: 27 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 239
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, History of Science, Poetry and Poetics