Breakthrough

How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn to Fail and Embrace the Unknown

Camilla Pang author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:25th Apr '24

£18.99

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A scientist’s journey from observation to discovery is anything but straightforward. It is littered with failure, unexpected diversions and joyous realizations. Science helps us to understand ourselves – but what we know about the world around us, what has already been explored and discovered, is only half of science’s story.

Dr Camilla Pang will look at some of the biggest mysteries facing science today and how some of the best, most cutting-edge scientists can illuminate our own approaches to observation, hypothesis, exploration, troubleshooting and discovery in our own lives. Breakthrough explores the frontier between what we do and don’t know about the world: where knowledge meets mystery, complexity overwhelms certainty, and the vastness of our universe unspools the logic of science's established laws.


There's a scientist hidden inside all of us. Science's greatest gift to us is not formulae but enabling the urge to discover that makes us truly human.

A wondrous hymn to the scientific method, and some of its most profound discoveries, and what it can teach us all about how to live better and richer lives. * Prof. Lewis Dartnell, author of BEING HUMAN: How our Biology shaped World History *

ISBN: 9780241545331

Dimensions: 224mm x 144mm x 25mm

Weight: 349g

256 pages