The Knowledge MachineRich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it. It is only in the last three centuries that the formidable knowledge making machine we call modern science has transformed our way of life and our vision of the universetwo thousand years after the invention of law, philosophy, drama and mathematics. Why did we take so long to invent science? And how has it proved