`Mary Midgley is a philosopher with what many have come
to admire, and some to fear, as one of the sharpest critical pens
in the West.' - Steven Rose, The Times Literary
Supplement
`This book is a welcome, funny, robust and acute assault on
...''Popular Science''.' - Brian Appleyard, The
Times
`Midgley is a witty, sometimes brilliant writer
... Science as Salvation is a cut above
most attempts to offer a serious critique of science because it
does so with precision and attention. No member of the public could
fail to have his or her ideas about science and life's meanings
altered.' - New Scientist
` ... her clarity, warmth of tone and gentle wit make it a
work accessible to the intelligent general reader. It deserves to
be widely read.' - Philosophical Quarterly
`Midgely, a moral philosopher with a very deft pen ... has
sport with the blither spirits within the high priesthood of (for
example) physics ...' - Tim Radford, The
Guardian
`... a rarity among books on the philosophy of science in
that it is at once beautifully written, interesting, cogent, and
coherent.' - Science Books and Films
`... a learned, deep and witty critique of the pretensions
of scientists who extrapolate larger visions of the cosmos and of
the place of humans in it.' - Christian
Century
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