Firestein, Stuart

"[Argues that] modern science involves the idiosyncratic, often bumbling search for understanding in uncharted territories, full of wrong turns, false findings, and the occasional remarkable success ... [Also shows] that the scientific enterprise is riddled with mistakes and errors--and that this is a good thing!"--Provided by publisher.

Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery.