Book cover of The Opposite is Also True

Ebel Kemeling

The opposite
is also true

81 ideas that will change your perspective

For as long as anyone can remember, scientists have tried to discover and describe patterns. In the form of laws, principles or paradoxes, they give us insight into how things work. We learn some of these laws at school, but a great many patterns you would need to recognize in order to live your life well, do your job properly, run your business successfully or make policy that actually works pass most people by. Wisdom is not exactly lying around for the taking either.

The Opposite is Also True describes 81 ideas in the form of scientific theories with well-known names attached to them.

Ebel Kemeling on the book at Plein Publiek (De Balie), in Dutch.

The author: Ebel Kemeling

Ebel Kemeling is the author of The Opposite is Also True. It took him some forty years of searching and reading to bring this range of ideas together.

Photo by Bob Bronshof

Portrait of Ebel Kemeling