Quantum Dialogue

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Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize of the "Journal of the History of Ideas" for Best Book on Intellectual History, 1999 "Science is rooted in conversations, " wrote Werner Heisenberg, one of the twentieth century's great physicists, "Quantum Dialogue" shows us how often science is rooted not just in conversation but in disagreement, a culture that fuels scientific creativity. Using original correspondence, notebooks, and drafts of talks and published papers, Beller reveals how world-famous scientists promoted their views by dismissing their opponents as "unreasonable" and championing their own not-always-coherent positions as "inevitable." "Quantum Dialogue" provides a revision of the accepted history of the quantum revolution, proposes a new approach to the history and philosophy of science, and will surely fascinate anyone interested in how "scientific revolutions" are constructed and "scientific consensus" is achieved.