Great Essays in Science

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The sphinx / Francis Bacon -- Recapitulation and conclusion / Charles Darwin -- The influence of darwinism on philosophy / John Dewey -- Nonmoral nature / Stephen Jay Gould -- The problem of being / William James -- What makes a woman beautiful? / Havelock Ellis -- The sacred beetle / Jean Henri Fabre -- The logic of elfland / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Can we know the universe? Reflections on a grain of salt / Carl Sagan -- The colloid and the crystal / Joseph Wood Krutch -- The barbarism of "specialization" / Jose Ortega Y Gasset -- Science and culture / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Science and literature / John Burroughs -- Science and beauty / Isaac Asimov -- Automation / Ernest Nagel -- Other-worldly life / Jonathan Norton Leonard -- Physics in the contemporary world / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- Religion and science / Alfred North Whitehead -- Proteus / John Dos Passos -- Julian Huxley / An essay on bird-mind -- The decline of determinism / Arthur Stanley Eddington -- Science in the brave new world / Aldous Huxley -- The sunless sea / Rachel Carson -- The nuptial flight / Naurice Maeterlinck -- The new source of energy science and ultimate truth / H. G. Wells -- Success / Laura Fermi -- The gestapo in science / Samuel Goudsmit -- Pan's pipes / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dreams of the death of beloved persons / Sigmund Freud -- The science to save us from science the greatness of Albert Einstein -- E-mc2 / Albert Einstein -- Seven Wonders / Lewis Thomas

Author(s): Martin Gardner
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Year: 1994

Language: English
Pages: 441
Tags: Математика;Популярная математика;