Download or read book Knowledge and Wonder, second edition written by Victor F. Weisskopf and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1979-11-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 100,000 copies of the first edition of Knowledge and Wonder have been sold, both in the U.S. and abroad. Written expressly for the general reader and beginning science student, the book describes our present scientific understanding of natural phenomena and the universality of that understanding and its human significance.