Paul Davies (1) (1946–)
Author of The Mind of God : The Scientific Basis for a Rational World
For other authors named Paul Davies, see the disambiguation page.
Paul Davies (1) has been aliased into P. C. W. Davies.
About the Author
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Works by Paul Davies
Works have been aliased into P. C. W. Davies.
The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe (1994) 766 copies, 5 reviews
The Matter Myth: Dramatic Discoveries That Challenge Our Understanding of Physical Reality (1991) 386 copies, 2 reviews
The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe (1987) 338 copies, 1 review
Are We Alone?: Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life (1995) 258 copies, 4 reviews
Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics (2010) — Editor — 116 copies, 1 review
The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion (2006) — Editor — 41 copies
Associated Works
Works have been aliased into P. C. W. Davies.
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society (2010) — Contributor — 1,048 copies, 17 reviews
Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces (1963) — Introduction, some editions — 401 copies, 2 reviews
The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century (2002) — Contributor — 389 copies, 9 reviews
THINKING ABOUT GÖDEL AND TURING: Essays on Complexity, 1970-2007 (2007) — Foreword — 26 copies, 1 review
The Future of God: Personal Adventures in Spirituality With Thirteen of Today's Eminent Thinkers (1996) — Contributor — 25 copies
The Guardian science course : Part I : The universe — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Canonical name
- Davies, Paul
- Legal name
- Davies, Paul Charles William
- Other names
- DAVIES, Paul Charles William
DAVIES, Paul - Birthdate
- 1946-04-22
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Education
- Woodhouse Grammar School
University College London (BSc|Physics)
University College London (PhD|Physics)
University of Cambridge (postdoctorate) - Occupations
- physicist
author - Organizations
- Arizona State University
University of Cambridge
University of London
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
University of Adelaide
Macquarie University (show all 7)
International Academy of Astronautics - Awards and honors
- Templeton Prize (1995)
Kelvin Medal (2001)
Faraday Prize (2002)
Advance Australia Award
Order of Australia (2007) - Short biography
- Paul C. W. DAvies is a professor of natural philosophy in the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University, Sydney. His research spans the fields of cosmology, gravitation, and quantum field theory, with particular emphasis on black holes, the origin of the universe, and the origin of life. [from What We Believe But Cannot Prove (2006)]
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- Works
- 29
- Also by
- 12
- Members
- 8,445
- Popularity
- #2,853
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 96
- ISBNs
- 413
- Languages
- 20
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- 10
Biology is still a strange science, exceptions outweigh the rule when you try to make any statement, there is a lack of fundamental principles to follow and even being able to effect a measurement reliably is completely non trivial.
However this state is unlikely to remain like this forever and the direction of a new way to identify principles in biological sciences will include information as a metric and evolutionary “optionality”.
Paul Davies in this book brings something new evem to people that feel they know contemporary biological methods.
On the down side the book is less accessible than other texts by the author ans requires attentive reading.… (more)