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Cosmos, by Jeremy Bernstein. Good reader on science and
scientists. A couple of pretty good reviews on Amazon.com. I was
particularly interested in your recognizing that people like
Einstein, who think outside of the box, are often not accepted
in their own scientific community.That is largely due to our
expectations that whatever we have been "taught" is the "way it
is." This attitude doesn't allow for new knowledge. Today
astrophysicists, who deal with very large measures, like the
distance, and size, and energy of stars and planets, are
discovering that they must work together with particle
physicists, who deal in very small measures, like atoms and
electrons. As they discover more and more in their own fields