The Tree of Knowledge: The Bright and the Dark Sides of Science by Claudio RonchiEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2014 | 297 Pages | ISBN : 3319014838 | 8.73 MB
Whether considered a divine gift or a Promethean conquest, science has indisputably and indelibly marked the course of human history. A product of the intellectual elite, but always nourished by the many fruits of its applications, science appears today to be a perfect system, whose laws and discoveries guide all human activities. Yet the foundations of its authority remain an open question, entailing disquieting aspects that are also to be identified in modern science.