Firestein, Stuart,

Failure : why science is so successful / Stuart Firestein. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Failing to define failure -- Fail better : advice from samuel beckett -- The scientific basis of failure -- The unreasonable success of failure -- The integrity of failure -- Teaching failure -- The arc of failure -- The scientific method of failure -- Failure in the clinic -- How to love your data when it's wrong : negative results -- Philosopher of failure -- Funding failure -- Pharma failure -- A plurality of failures -- CODA.



9780199390113


Failure (Psychology)
Science--Philosophy.
Discoveries in science.


Electronic Books.

BF575 / .F355 2015