
Seven Pillars of Science
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- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Epigraph
- PREFACE: Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- PROLOGUE: Worlds Beyond: Maybe We Are Not Alone
- PILLAR 1: Solid Things Are Mostly Empty Space
- PILLAR 2: The Stars Are Suns and We Know What They Are Made Of
- PILLAR 3: There is No Life Force
- PILLAR 4: The Milky Way is a Warehouse Stocked with the Raw Ingredients of Life
- PILLAR 5: The Carbon Coincidence
- PILLAR 6: The Book of Life is Written in Three-letter Words
- PILLAR 7: The Incredible Lightness of Ice
- EPILOGUE: Bottlenecks: Maybe We Are Alone
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Also by John Gribbin
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