An Imagined World: A Story of Scientific Discovery - June Goodfield

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An Imagined World: A Story of Scientific Discovery, June Goodfield, 1981, United States, NONFICTION

"...June Goodfield, a philosopher of science, weaves together the bits and pieces of science—the euphoria of insight, the dynamics of an international laboratory, the problem of obtaining funding, the need for exact experiments and an open mind—and creates a mystery that is both suspenseful and comprehensible...Describing the feeling of being alone with her idea, knowing she is one of few who truly understand and believe it, she comments, "It's like walking literally into one of those landscapes of Dali; where the clocks just drip like hanging linen so that you don't even feel the touch of the wind. Everything is still: time is still, the landscape is still; and one feels very alone."..."

(E.B., p. 378)