Reviews for Sacred Beetle: And Other Great Essays in Science - Martin Gardner - Paperback

The average rating for Sacred Beetle: And Other Great Essays in Science - Martin Gardner - Paperback based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-04-23 00:00:00 Marek Wodziszewski What I liked most about this book was it's variety of essays, some of which I never would have read by themselves. At the same time some of the essays seemed fairly irrelevant. All in all it was an enjoyable read. I especially liked the (completely dated) essay which talked about the certainty of vegetation on Mars, while it doesn't reflect contemporary thought it was interesting to read something which was written with some degree of certainty and which has proved to be far from the truth. The change in thought is progress and without it life would be somewhat less interesting.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-24 00:00:00 Jeff Wilcox It has taken me ages to read this book, a collection of essays in Science, mainly physics. Some of them were profound, deeply moving, and others very dated. Some were written so technically that I gave up on them. But despite the age of the book, I enjoyed (most) of the essays in it.