From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century

F. David Peat0309076412, 9780309076418, 9780309510493

Early theorists believed that in science lay the promise of certainty. Built on a foundation of fact and constructed with objective and trustworthy tools, science produced knowledge. But science has also shown us that this knowledge will always be fundamentally incomplete and that a true understanding of the world is ultimately beyond our grasp.