DJ Strouse

My Goodreads Review rating: 4 of 5 stars A concise picture of Isaac Newton that avoids the two extremes of scientist biographies that tend to turn people off: (1) the middle school gossip approach that focuses primarily on rivalries and sexcapades and (2) the rigorous and mathtastic summary of the scientist’s major papers. This is [...]

My Goodreads Review rating: 4 of 5 stars This book must have perplexed ancient librarians trying to categorize it under the Dewey decimal system. Weaving scientific philosophy, Socratic philosophy, motorcycle engine mechanics, a polemic against the university model, and a travel story, Pirsig created a truly unique novel. Though I didn’t find Pirsig’s main thesis [...]

My Goodreads Review rating: 5 of 5 stars On the basis of this book’s popularity and age, I suspected its ideas had so pervaded modern thinking that I would gain little from reading it. Not so. Though the idea of a paradigm has same vague colloquial meaning, Kuhn examines the lenses through which scientific communities [...]