atoms laid themselves in orderliness

Tags: atoms, crystal structures
Categories: Pseudo-explanations

An example of anthropomorphism in a scientist's writing:

"Some small group of atoms coming together in the right sort of orderliness formed a seed on which successive layers of atoms laid themselves in the same sort of orderliness."

Alan Holden

Holden, A. (1965). The Nature of Solids. Columbia University Press.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.