Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy

Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy (Doubleday, 1991; softcover by Anchor, 1992), coauthored with James Trefil outlines a strategy for reforming science education and summarizes the great principles of science. It has appeared in a dozen foreign language editions. The book rose to #6 on The Washington Post nonfiction best-seller list.

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"For overall page-turning readability, Science Matters is as good as they get. ...Lucid and lively. Hazen and Trefil have a particular genius for picturing even formidably abstract ideas in concrete images." Curt Suplee, The Washington Post

"Good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain-anything science teachers, the kind you wish you had but never did." The New York Times Book Review

"Confident overview of the fundamentals of science .. the text is comprehensible and carefully paced." Booklist

"A first-rate exposition - thorough, accessible, and entertaining - of the rudiments of scientific knowledge. ... Easily one of the finest single-volume introductions to science." Kirkus Reviews