What is life

Author: Erwin Schr?dinger
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: "This book is a jewel with many facets. It can be read in a few hours, yet it will not be forgotten in a lifetime." — Scientific American "In this small book, Schr?dinger clearly and concisely answers many of the conceptual questions that a scientist encounters when trying to unravel the mysteries of life. It is a must-read for university students." — Paul Davies
Science, especially natural science, one of the most important goals is to pursue the original driving force of science, or to pursue its impetus. At the same time, this spirit of pursuing science itself has become one of the fundamental driving forces for social development and human progress. Science always seeks to discover and understand new phenomena of the objective world, study and master new laws, and is always relentlessly pursuing truth. Science is serious, rigorous, and realistic, while at the same time, it is creative. One of the fundamental attitudes of science is skepticism, and one of the fundamental spirits of science is criticism.
The Life Is What It Is by Nobel laureate Erwin Schr?dinger is one of the great scientific classics of the 20th century. It is a popular work written for laypeople, yet it has proven to be an inspiration and driving force behind the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of DNA. This volume combines What Is Life? and Mind and Matter, the latter also being an essay he wrote, in which he explores the questions that have puzzled philosophers since ancient times. Alongside these two classics is Schr?dinger's autobiography. Through a review and engaging description of his life, it provides background material for his scientific writings.