TY - BOOK AU - Barrow,John D. TI - Impossibility: the limits of science and the science of limits SN - 9780099772118 (pbk.) : AV - Q175 U1 - 501 BAR PY - 1999/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Science KW - Philosophy KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Popular Science and Mathematics KW - ukslc KW - Physics KW - thema KW - Popular science KW - Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge KW - Philosophy of science KW - Impact of science & technology on society KW - Cosmology & the universe N1 - Originally published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - In this fascinating book Barrow reveals the often paradoxical limits on knowledge and achievement. He also shows that the notion of 'impossibility' has played and continues to play a striking role in our thinking and how we understand ourselves ER -